Following the success of the Viking, RAF Transport Command ordered a new variant suitable for the role of military ambulance, freighter, glider-tug, troop carrier, and dropping supplies.

One of the range of very successful light homebuilt monoplanes produced by Vans at Oregon in the United States, the prototype of the series, the RV-9A (N96VA) with a tricycle undercarriage was first flown in 1997.

The Type 134 Vellore I was designed by Rex Pierson, Chief Designer of VICkers Aviation at Weybridge in Surry to meet an Air Ministry Specification (34/24).

The RV-10 series was the first foray by Richard Vans Grunsven of Vans aircraft into the manufacture of a kit for a four-seat aircraft, and the prototype (N410RV) was flown for the first time on 29 May 2003.

The Viastra was designed by VICkers (Aviation) Ltd at Brooklands Aerodrome, Weybridge, Surrey, and was manufactured by the Supermarine Aviation Works at Woolston, Southampton.

The Vans series of light aircraft kit planes has been the most popular for homebuilders for some years and a variety of models is available.

In October 1944 the British Ministry of Aircraft Production issued a specification for a short/medium haul airliner and VICkers produced the Viking, the first of three prototypes (G-AGOK) designated Type 491 being flown on 22 June 1945 at Wisley.

The Vans RV-14 and RV-14A series was introduced to the sporting aviation market in 2012 and although similar in appearance to other aircraft in the series, is better described as a two-seat variant of the RV-10 series and is capable of some aerobatics.

The Vazar Dash 3 is a conversion by the Vardax Corporation of Bellingham, Washington, of the de Havilland DHC-3 Otter to take a turboprop powerplant, the company in recent years being known as Vazar Aerospace.

The Taifun is a two-seat, self-launched glider designed and built by Valentin Flugzeugbau GmbH at Hasfurt in Germany, the prototype (D-KONO) flying for the first time on 28 February 1981.

The Hummingbird is a kit-built helicopter produced by Vertical Aviation Technologies of Sanford, Florida.

The Vans RV-3 is a single-seat sporting monoplane designed by Richard Van Grunsven in the USA in 1968.

Mr VEEnstra was born in Dieman in the Netherlands on 16 January 1943 and emigrated to Australia in about 1954.