Southern Cross Aviation Ltd was formed in Toowoomba, QLD, in 1957 to explore the feasibility of designing and manufacturing a light aircraft in Australia to compete against the American imports of Cessna and Piper.

The Ultrabat was conceived by George Markey in Sydney, designed by Graham Swannell and built by Scott Winton and George Markey as a high performance sporting aircraft.

The Sabre is designed and built in the Slovenia by SOVA and is available as a factory built machine, and can be registered under ultralight rules or in the general aviation category.

Marketed by Sport Copter Inc of Scappoose, Oregon, the Vortex is one of a series of gyrocopters produced in three basic variants, the Sportscopter II, Vortex M-912 and the Lightning, the latter being a basic model.

The Spad series of fighting scouts was produced by the Societe Pour Aviation et ses Derives (SPAD), the chief designer being Louis Bechereau.

The Panther was designed by Daniel Weseman of Florida, US, a pilot and machinist who was involved in making conversions of the General Motors Corvair six-cylinder engine for installation in light aircraft.

The British light aircraft manufacturing company, Simmonds Aircraft Ltd, underwent some changes in 1930 and became Spartan Aircraft Ltd and produced aircraft initially at its Weston, Southampton facility, before moving to East Cowes on the Isle of Wight on 20 February 1931.

The RF-4 was one of a series of self-launched gliders designed by Rene Fournier in France. The first of the motor glider series of aircraft was the RF-01 (F-WJGX) built in a disused laundry in Cannes over a period of three years.

The Cruiser was a three-engine low-wing cantilever monoplane with a crew of two and seating six passengers.

The Sportavia-Putzer series of aircraft was designed in Germany by Mr M Rene Fournier, the company being formed in 1966 to take over from Alpavia the manufacture of his series of light aircraft.

Produced as a successor to the Simmonds Spartan, between 1930 and 1935 Spartan Aircraft Ltd constructed a total of twenty-six examples of its Three-Seater, the first two being completed at Southampton, and the remainder at the company’s new facility at East Cowes on the Isle of Wight.

The TBM-900 is a development of the business and executive / utility aircraft series produced in France since it was introduced to the market in 1990, examples being operated over the years by the French Arm and Air Force, with 324 TBM-700s being delivered, followed by 338 TBM-850s, being replaced

In 1985 Soloy Aviation Solutions converted a Cessna 206 to turbine power, replacing the Continental TIO-520 engine with a Rolls Royce / Allison 250 turboshaft, this engine providing in this installation 311-kw (417-shp) and gives better performance, safety and value, and since then other Cessna models including the 182 and

The FSRW, constructed almost entirely of fibreglass, was initially a development project of the Sydney University School of Aeronautical Engineering, in 1974.

For many years Soloy Conversions in the United States has been involved in converting of aircraft and helicopters to turbine power, using the Allison 250 range of turbines.

The design of the Sidewinder was commenced in 1958 by Jerry Smyth of Huntington, Indiana, it being a two-seat side-by-side sporting monoplane.

The Hiller UH-12 series of utility helicopters has been in service world-wide for many years, being produced by the original Hiller company and was known as the Model 360 family, and some were produced by Fairchild-Hiller, , being supported by Hiller Aviation Inc which produced new or re-manufactured examples until

One of a new breed of high performance homebuilt aircraft available to the amateur constructor in kit form, the Seawind 2500 was designed by Seawind Industries of Haliburton, Ontario, Canada,the prototype (C-GFNL) flying for the first time on 23 August 1982.

Soloy Aviation Solutions has for many years been involved in converting aircraft and helicopters to turbine power and aircraft involved have included the Cessna 206, 207, 208 etc.

This series of agricultural aircraft has received a number of appellations over the years, being known as the Snow Commander, Ayres, Marsh, Thrush, Aero Commander Ag Commander and the Rockwell Thrush Commander.

The Onex is one of a series of light aircraft produced in the United States by Sonex Aircraft of Oshkosh in Wisconsin as a kit for amateur construction, the first Onex variant being flown for the first time on 27 January 2011.

In 1979 Socata, the general aviation division of Aerospatiale, was continuing with development of a series of light aircraft and at this time the TB-10 was named the Tobago, and a new less powerful model became the TB-9 Tampico, the latter being aimed at the training market.

The Sonex is a light two-seat monoplane designed by John Monnett, designer of the Monnett Sonerai, Moni, and others, and was introduced in 1998.

In 1975 the Research and Development Department of the Societe de Construction D’Avions de Tourisme et D’Affaires in France (a subsidiary of Aerospatiale) initiated the design of a new series of touring monoplanes.

The SubSonex was designed by John Monnett and began as a dream in his mind for a personal sport jet that could be flown by someone with average to good pilot skills.

The TB-20 Trinidad was designed by Socata, a subsidiary of Aerospatiale, as a natural up-market development of the popular TB-10 Tobago but fitted with a retractable undercarriage, a 187-kw (250-hp) engine, and an increased fuel capacity.

The Waiex is a variant of the Sonex series of light all-metal aircraft and the main variation from the Sonex is a V-tail.

TBM was established by the Aerospatiale General Aviation Division, Socata, and the US manufacturer Mooney, to produce a high-performance business aircraft.

Following the success of other aircraft in the Sonex range, John Monnett designed the Xenos which is aimed at bringing the cost of motor gliding to an affordable level.

The TBM 850 is an up-rated variant of the TBM 700 business aircraft to take a more powerful PT6A-66D turboprop and was aimed at the market to provide a higher cruising speed and journey

In 1920 the British Air Ministry published rules for a Small Commercial Aeroplane Competition and a number of designs were entered, including the Westland Limousine and the Sopwith Antelope.

The Aerostar series of light aircraft was designed by the late Ted Smith, who first became well known in aviation circles in the USA for designing the Aero Commander series of light business twins.

The Storch Moose was the last in the line of STOL aircraft produced by Storch Aviation of Beechwood, NSW, and is the largest and most powerful aircraft in the range.

The DSA-1 Miniplane (DSA - Darned Small Airplane) was designed, and the prototype built, by Frank W Smith as a small open cockpit biplane of relative simple construction, to be constructed by amateur builders, and to be capable of some aerobatics.

Designed and developed by Nestor Slepcev at Beechwood on the mid-north coast of New South Wales, the Storch is a three/quarter scale replica of the Luftwaffe Fieseler FI-156 Storch STOL communications aircraft.

The Super Storch is a development of the Storch by what became Storch Aviation at Beechwood on the NSW north coast.

The Mynah 2 was a one-off homebuilt light biplane aircraft and although designed by Wallace and Robert McNair, it had no resemblance or linkage with the McNair Mynah, which is dealt with elsewhere.

The T-67 Firefly series was a development by Slingsby Aviation of the Fournier RF-6B two-seat aerobatic club trainer designed in the early 1970s and built with a steel-tube fuselage with fabric covering, and a wood with fabric covered wing.

The CA-22 was built for ultralight regulations and development of the JAR/VLA variant produced the CA-22A and this became the first Australian-built aircraft to be certified in the Normal Category, but ultralight certification was also available.

Designed by Egon Scheibe, this series of self-launching gliders was introduced in 1968 by the German firm, Scheibe, which commenced production of a side-by-side two-seat dual-control training version of the SF-24A Motorspatz.