The Piper J-2 Cub first appeared in 1936 as a simple two-seat in tandem, training monoplane designed by the brothers C Gilbert and Gordon Taylor

The PAC 750 series, as noted elsewhere was developed from the Cresco agricultural series of aircraft, which itself was developed from the Fletcher FU-24 series.

The Piper PA-20 Pacer, introduced in 1949, was a development of the PA-16 Clipper, which was in turn a development of the PA-15 Vagabond. The PA-16 was fitted with a 86-kw (115-hp) Lycoming four-cylinder engine.

The Thunder Mustang was produced by Papa 51 Ltd at its facility at Nampa, Idaho and is an all-composite three-quarter scale replica of the North American P-51 Mustang.

Developed from the Piper Apache, and using many common components, the prototype of the Aztec series was flown for the first time in 1959.

The Parnall Penguin, also known as the Marshall Penguin, was designed and built by well known Australian aviation identity, the late Sidney Marshall, in the late 1950s.

The Pitts Special series of aircraft was designed by Curtiss Pitts, the well-known American designer, as a high-performance, light sporting biplane, the first example, known as the S-1 Special, flying in September 1944.

The Super Cub, the prototype of which was flown in 1949, was a development of the Piper PA-11 Cub Special, which in turn was a development of the J-3 Cub of 1938.

The Kiebitz B was designed as a light touring sporting biplane in Germany by Mr Michael Platzer at Guxhagen in Germany and is available to amateur builders in kit form.

Known initially as the Piper Twin Stinson, the prototype of the PA-23 Apache series was flown for the first time on 2 March 1952.

The PB-1 is a single-seat ultralight aircraft produced by PoorBoy Aviation of Minot, North Dakota and has been available to the market for some years in three variants, the PB-U, the PB-1 and the PB-H and is aimed at the market for a simple design with a simple construction technique.

The Piper PA-25 Pawnee, was flown for the first time in 1958, and was known initially as the Ag 3.

The STOL King was designed and produced by Preceptor Aircraft based at /Rutherfordton in North Carolina as an amateur-built light aircraft to be available as a plans or it.

When the Cherokee was released, it was the first completely new model from the Piper stable for some time, and it represented a major change in design philosophy for the company.

The Mojave was designed by Piper to carry a crew of two with dual controls, and five passengers in the main cabin.

Following the establishment by Percival Aircraft of its own manufacturing facility at Gravesend Airport in Kent, a new model of the Gull series was announced, this being a similar to the Gull IV but with a single-strut undercarriage, revised cabin top, and entrance doors, the main change being the installation

The Seneca was developed from the Piper Cherokee Six series, basically being a twin-engine version with the fuselage of the Cherokee Six using the Cherokee Six’s wings, horizontal tail and fuselage, standard single and optional double rear loading doors and single front door, with a new wing centre section so

The Piaggio P-136 series of amphibious flying-boats was a produced in Italy during the late 1940s and early 1950s.

With a flight crew of two on a separate flight deck, and normal accommodation for six to nine persons in the cabin, the Piper Model PA-42 Cheyenne III, introduced in 1979, became the largest aircraft of the Piper range.

The Diamante was one of a series of light aircraft designed by Claude Piel in France in the 1950s.

Continuing its line of small to medium high-performance single-engine business and executive aircraft, in October 2007 Piper announced it was producing a new model of the Malibu series initially known initially as the Malibu Matrix but later becoming known as the Matrix.

With more than 1,200 examples of the Islander series delivered since 1987, the type has continued to be developed for both civil and military operators.

In 2009 Piper Aircraft was taken over by the Brunei Government and at this time Piper announced it would be producing a new training aircraft known as the Pipersport, this aircraft to be a derivative of the Czech Aircraft SportCruiser which is produced in the Czech Republic.

The Dual Star was a two-seat development of the Pioneer Flightstar which, in the mid 1980s, was marketed in Australia by Nason Industries of Melbourne

The Sinus is one of a series of motor-gliders produced by Pipistrel in Slovenia and which has been available as a complete aircraft for some years, with over 300 examples of the series being delivered, and which in recent years has been available in kit form for the amateur builder.

The prototype of the Smith Aerostar series, known as the 320, flew for the first time in November 1966 powered by two Lycoming IO-320 engines but as time went by more powerful engines were fitted to new models to increase performance.

The TWA-4 was a three-seat light cabin monoplane which in general appearance looked much like the Percival Gull series designed by Edgar Percival in the United Kingdom.

Similar in appearance to the Virus from the same company, the Alpha Trainer was designed to comply with American Light Sport Aircraft Rules.

The Knight Twister is a single-seat, single-engine, aerobatic sport biplane designed in 1928, built and first flown in 1932 by Vernon W Payne, and since then it has been marketed in plan form for home constructors.

Herbert John Pither [1871 to 1934] was born in Reigate, Surrey, in the United Kingdom and was the second eldest of 12 children of John and Lydia Pither, who emigrated to Canterbury on the south island of New Zealand on board the vessel Crusader in 1875

The PL-9 was designed by Ladislao Pazmany and is one of a number of designs produced by him over the years to meet the requirements of the light sport aircraft market.

For many years Curtis Pitts has designed high-performance aerobatic monoplanes, his first being built in 1941 and was known as the Pitts Special, being fitted with a 34-kw (45-hp) engine. Development was interrupted by World War II but thereafter his second design was built and had a 63-kw (85-hp) engine

Under a supplemental type certificate, Pen Turbo Aviation of Cape May Airport, New Jersey early in the 21st century undertook a re-engineering of the DHC-4A Caribou as a result of market demand for a turbine-powered variant of the Caribou.

The Poliwagen was a light sporting aircraft designed for amateur construction of composite structure. The first of three prototypes made its initial flight in 1977.

At the end of World War II Percival Aircraft Ltd produced a five-seat commercial aircraft known as the P.48 Merganser, which was of all-metal, stressed skin construction with fabric covered control surfaces.

The Sabre 1K-1R was a high-wing strut-braced ultra-light aircraft with an open cockpit marketed by Pour le Merite Ultralights of Nagambie, VIC in the 1980s and was designed to meet ANO 95.10.

The Sportlite 103 is one of a series of ultralight aircraft produced by Pro Sport Aviation of Wingate, North Carolina

Pterodactyl in the United States produced a number of ultralight aircraft for the sports aircraft market and these included the Ptraveller, the Pfledge and the Ascender II.

The prototype of the PA-32 Lance series was flown for the first time on 30 August 1974, and customer deliveries began in October 1975.

As noted elsewhere, the M-18 Dromader is a fire-fighting and agricultural aeroplane designed to operate under night and day VFR conditions and built to comply with FAR Pt 23, and AMDT.16 built by Polskie Zaktady Lotnicze in Mielec in Poland.