The Hawkeye is an ultralight aircraft designed and built by its owner as a one-off aircraft. It was designed as a scale replica of the Piper L-4 observation aircraft and when completed was painted in an overall green colour scheme and markings of a US Army Air Force aircraft in
This was an ultralight aircraft built by a number of members of the Gold Coast Ultralight Club at Tallabudgera. At least one example was registered with the RAA on 18 December 1989 as 10-1177 and this aircraft was fitted with a Zenoah G-50 engine.
Little is known about this aircraft but it was designed and built by the late Ole Hartmann and, fitted with a Rotax 503 engine, it became 19-3746 (c/n 1) under RAA regulations.
This was an ultralight aircraft known as the Jenner Gippslander Mk 1 and was registered with the RAA on 28 August 1995 and was withdrawn from use on 25 May 2008.
John Harley Gill of Dunedin, NZ, designed and built an aircraft in about 1909, work commencing at about that time in the foundry of Schlaadt Bros in Cumberland Street.
A Hamilton biplane was flown by Messrs Seaforth and MacKenzie out of a paddock at Martin, NZ in 1913, this being the first flight by a heavier than air machine in the Manawatu area.
Australian philanthropist, Sir Edward Hallstrom, based in Sydney, was well known, amongst other things, for the design, development, production and marketing of the Hallstrom series of refrigerators, which became a by-word for efficiency at the time.
This light aircraft was designed and built by Bryan Gabriel at Holbrook, NSW. It is an approximately 70-percent scale model of a North American P-51D Mustang built of all metal construction and fitted with a converted Mercury six-cylinder Vee outboard engine.
The F-14 Tomcat for many years was one of the most potent interceptor / fighters in the armoury of the US Navy and saw combat on a number of occasions operating from aircraft carriers of the US Fleet.
This was a one-off homebuilt gyrocopter built around the cockpit section of a Robinson R-22. The machine is fitted with a tricycle undercarriage and was fitted with a Subaru EJ25 engine driving in a pusher configuration behind the cockpit, being fitted with a three-blade Ivo 1.93 m (76-inch) propeller.
Work on an 80% scale all alloy scale replica of the Grumman F-8 Bearcat was commenced in Western Australia in about 2010, the aircraft to be fitted with a new 269-kw (360-hp) Vedeneyev M-14P radial engine driving a four-blade MT propeller.
This aircraft was registered on 5 March 2013 as VH-NZG³ (c/n 2009-1). It was built by Robert Grigson of Strathfieldsaye, Vic. and is fitted with an Aero Sport Power IO-375-M1B engine driving a Whirlwind Aviation 200RV propeller.
In May 2003 Mr Lance Watson gave evidence to the Australian House of Representatives Transport and Regional Services Committee of a proposal by his Company to develop an aircraft able to serve remote communities at ‘bus fare prices’.
The Hummingbird is a high-performance gyrocopter designed and built in Brazil at Joinville, which is between Florianopolis and Curitaba on the south Brazilian coastline.
This aircraft was a homebuilt light aircraft built in a terrace house at Redfern in Sydney before World War II. A press report in the Daily Telegraph from April 1910 described it as the “First Australian-Built Aeroplane”.
The TH1 is a single-seat light aircraft built at Leom, New Zealand, in the 1980s. It was one of the first indigenous-designed light aircraft to be completed in New Zealand and is said to be based on the design of the North American P-51 Mustang.
Following the announcement of Henry Kremer in the United Kingdom inviting interested parties to design and build an aircraft to make the first successful flight of a man powered aircraft.
This aircraft was noted at an air-show at Aero Pelican, Belmont, NSW in September 1964. The machine was unfinished and was said to have been submitted to the Army Inventions Commission in 1943.
The Kermit was a single-seat ultra-light aircraft designed and built in Australia and made its first flight in 1999. It was fitted with a Rotax 503 engine driving a Sweetapple two-blade propeller.
Very little is known about this aircraft. It was first registered with Recreation Aviation Australia on 4 December 2008 but nothing further is known about it.
Little is known about this aircraft. It is a scaled down Piper J-3 Cub designed and built by the owner and is a single-seater and is painted overall yellow and is powered by a Rotax 277 engine.
Mr Jones was the lecturer in charge at the East Sydney Technical College when classes were held in the 1930s in relation to aircraft design and construction and he himself was involved in the design and construction of a number of aircraft of his own design, and with the assistance
In July 1988 it was announced a Swedish inventor of the World’s first cardboard aircraft “which is also radar-proof and fire-resistant”, was setting up business in Australia.
Early in the 20th century Mr A W Jones went to England and obtained his pilot’s licence. On his return in 1913 he imported a Caudron G.II fitted with a 26-kw (35-hp) to 30-kw (40-hp) Anzani engine.
This was an ultra-light aircraft which was registered with the RAA as 10-1477 and was registered from 22 September 1995 until 16 January 1999 when it was retired.
Terrence Kronk over the years, before his tragic loss in an aircraft crash, was involved in the construction of a number of scale replicas of aircraft, and these included a Spitfire Mk 26 , North American P-51 Mustang and a Fw-190A.
The Joey was probably one of the first powered gliders in Australasia, and was designed and built in Australia by Keith Jarvis of South Australia and placed in production.
Mr John Lowther in New Zealand designed and built a 75% scale replica of a Sopwith F.1 Camel, this being the second aircraft he had designed himself and the ninth light aircraft he had built.
Mr A McMullen of Fremantle, WA built an aircraft named The Boomerang of his own design. On 12 January 1911 Joseph Hammond examined the machine and said it showed great promise, that it will maintain its poise or equilibrium automatically.