For many years Holmer Kolb was involved in the design and construction of light aircraft of his own design and is considered one of the founders of the ultra-light movement in North America.

The Sky-Rider was an ultra-light aircraft designed by Gareth Kimberley in 1978, he at that time being employed by Qantas as a Boeing 747 Captain and had an interest in hang gliding.

In 1959 Bankstown, NSW based Kingsford Smith Aviation Service Pty Ltd set up a company, Austerserve Pty Ltd, to modify and improve Austers imported from the United Kingdom.

The Kingsmith was a further effort by Kingsford Smith Aviation Service of Bankstown, NSW to modernize the Auster series of aircraft, in this case using an Auster J-1 Autocrat for the conversion.

The KS-3 agricultural aircraft was the forerunner of the Yeoman Cropmaster, and was built at Bankstown, NSW, by Kingsford Smith Aviation Services in the 1950s.

In 1954 the need was seen by Kingsford Smith Aviation Services Pty Ltd of Bankstow, NSW for a large, high powered, agricultural aircraft of simple construction to replace the de Havilland Tiger Moth then in widespread use.

Developed from the Minicab GY-201, which was designed by Yves Gardan in France, the Cavalier is a redesign of that aircraft, which was also aimed at the amateur construction market.

This aircraft stemmed in 1998 from a series of light aircraft designed by Dan Denney. The Lite was an ultralight trainer aimed as the US Sports Pilot Program. It has been produced in kit form and is available in tricycle undercarriage configuration.

In 1914 the Kalgoorlie Aeroplane Syndicate was formed with the aim of building a two-seat biplane fitted with a 37-kw (50-hp) Gnome rotary engine. Chief constructor of the machine was Mr A E Geere, who served his apprenticeship with VICkers Aircraft Co in the UK. He had obtained pilot’s licence

The Kawasaki Ki-45 Toryu (Dragon Killer) – known to the allies as Nick – was an important part of the Japanese Armys fighter fleet in the Pacific and saw service through the War in a number of roles. In December 1937 Kawasaki initiated design of the Ki-45, a two-seat fighter

In February 1940 Kawasaki Kokuki Kogyo KK was asked to design a fighter around the licence built Daimler-Benz DB 601A twelve-cylinder VEE engine, and to this end the Ki-60 evolved, the prototype flying in March 1941. Initial trials were not particularly successful, and the aircraft was redesigned as the Ki.61

The Kawasaki KV-107 was a licence-built version of the Boeing Vertol Model 107 which had been supplied to the US and other military forces as the H-46 Sea Knight and which had been produced in a variety of models to meet a number of operational needs. In 1965 Kawasaki acquired

The Homebuilt 12 is a development by Jim Kimball Enterprises Inc of Zellwood, Florida to make the Pitts S-2 Special series into a more powerful aircraft for unlimited aerobatics to compete against other types of aircraft in this category.

Following its success in the market, Gipps Aero continued the development of the Airvan and produced a number of enhancements to the aircraft, these including an optional under-fuselage cargo pod, an autopilot, air-conditioning, a larger nosewheel for soft field operations and an EDM-800 engine monitoring and data logging system.

For some years Gippsland Aeronautics (formerly Latrobe Valley Aviation Services) was involved in rebuilding the Piper PA-25-235 Pawnee agricultural aircraft.

Bennett Aircraft Corp was formed in Texas in 1940 to develop and build, using a new material known as Duraloid, a series of light aircraft

In January 1976 the N-24 variants of the Nomad, with a 61-cm (24-in) increased length in the nose, and a 1.14-m (45-in) increase in cabin length, flew for the first time.

The GA-8 Airvan is a new entrant into the manufacture of light aircraft in Australia, and is the first commercial utility type aircraft put into production since the GAF Nomad.

In March 1948, following a series of meetings between members of the British Ministry of Supply and the Australian Department of Supply and Development, a specification was issued to cover the design and manufacture of a small high-speed pilotless aircraft for use in the guided weapon development program.

This machine was built by David Gash of Balaclava, VIC commencing in the 1920s using wings designed to represent the wings of a bird. Construction commenced in about 1929 after he obtained the wreck of a Curtiss JN-4 Jenny which had crashed at Essendon.

Yves Gardan, the designer of the Horizon series of light monoplanes, was well known in France as the designer of the CAB Minicab, Supercab, and other aircraft.

In about May of 1970 it was announced to the press that negotiations had been in progress for sometime in relation to the possibility that the American-designed 36-40 seat GAC-100 feeder liner, powered by United Aircraft of Canada PT-6 turboprop engines, would be almost entirely built and assembled in Australia

The ST.4 was aimed at the market for a light transport feeder liner and for operation by private owners, being a twin-engine light low-wing monoplane with Pobjoy radial engines.

In about 1930 the Monospar Wing Co Ltd was set up to build a new design of wing for the British Air Ministry, the new wing being fitted to a three-seat low-wing monoplane named the Monospar ST-3.

Following the success of the earlier models General Aircraft produced the ST.12. This was a progressive development of the earlier models and was introduced to the market in 1935, being described as a four-seat general purpose monoplane.

General Aircraft in 1934 appointed D L Hollis Williams as chief engineer and in that year the Company moved to Hanworth where he commenced design of the ST-18, a ten-seat, twin-engine, low-wing airliner with a cruising speed of 306 km/h (190 mph) and a range in excess of 966

In March 1948, following a series of meetings between members of the British Ministry of Supply and the Australian Department of Supply and Development, specification No E.7/48 was issued to cover the design and manufacture of a small high-speed pilotless target aircraft for use in the guided weapon development program.

One of a new series of high-performance light aircraft marketed by General Avia Co Struzioni Aeronautiche SRL in Italy, the F-22 series was designed by Stelio Frati, a freelance designer who has designed many well known aircraft including the F-8 Falco, Siai Marchetti SF-260 etc.

During the 1960s the Government Aircraft Factories at Fishermens Bend, VIC, began designing a small utility transport intended to provide a continuing production activity after completion of the GAMD Dassault Mirage IIIO fighter programme and, to meet civil and military needs.

The Gere Biplane was designed by George Gere junior, a 19 year old student at the University of Minnesota, in 1932 as a cheap easy to build light aircraft.

The Model 45 produced by the Fairchild Corporation was known, when first introduced, as The Sedan of the Air and was aimed at meeting a market for a high-speed transport with good capacity, comfort and convenience normally associated with an expensive automobile

In the 1920s Sherman Fairchild was involved in the business of aerial photography and survey work, and found the aircraft available at the time not meeting his requirements

The Furio is a two-seat light aircraft designed and developed by Giovani and Lapo Nustrini, Lapo Ancillotti, and Kevin Grant in Auckland, NZ, design of the aircraft commencing in about 2004, construction of the prototype beginning in early 2006

The Allegro is one of a series of ultra-light aircraft built at Pisek in the Czech Republic by Fantasy Air Ltd

The Farman III, which has also been referred to as the Henri Farman 1909 or 1910 Biplane in order to distinguish it from aircraft built by his brother Maurice, was one of a series of aircraft designed and developed by Henri Farman in France from 1909, the design being copied

In the United States in 1981 the Eastern Ultralights company commenced designing and building ultralight aircraft for the world market, the aircraft being designed by Robert Able and produced in some numbers for the amateur construction market.

The Jenny is a two-thirds scale replica of the Curtiss JN-4D Jenny training aircraft which in its ultralight form can be used an ultralight trainer as well as a sporting aircraft.

The Eagle X was announced in 1986 by Composite Industries Ltd, the WA group which was instrumental in getting the concept into development.

The Models 170, 175, 190 and 195 are members of a family of turbofan-powered passenger aircraft produced by Embraer in Brazil and which were developed following the success of the EMB-145 series, with more than 900 examples of the latter delivered.

Designed by John Edgley in 1974, and built by Edgley Aircraft Ltd. in the United Kingdom, the Optica was a three-seat light touring aircraft, construction of the prototype beginning in 1976 after extensive work in a wind tunnel.