As would be expected, the S-2 was a natural two-seat development of the very popular single-seat S-1 series.

The Super Stinker was introduced to the unlimited aerobatic competition world in the early 1990s and is an upgraded variant of the Pitts S-1, being described as a ground-up re-design of the S-1, with increased manoeuvrability and more power.

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 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.

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

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.

The National NA-75 was a conversion of the Boeing PT-17 Stearman two-seat training biplane, of which many became available after World War II from the US services, and a number of schemes were put in place to convert them for agricultural use.

The Nord 3202 was manufactured by SNCA du Nord in France as a two-seat primary trainer for use as standard equipment at schools of the Aviation Legere de l’Armee (ALAT), replacing the Stampe SV-4 biplane.

The Murrayair MA-1 was a redesign and reconstruction of the Boeing Stearman Model 75 Kaydet biplane trainer as a two-seat crop-dusting aircraft performed under contract to Murrayair Ltd of Hawaii by engineers at Air New Zealand, some 9,000 examples of the Stearman having been built as trainers during world War

In 1916 H C “Horrie” Miller, whilst travelling on board a ship from the United Kingdom to Australia, prepared a set of 36 drawings for a light aircraft that he could build, with others, in their spare time.

On 28 June 1896 Mr Gotthilf [George] Mackenzie Jnr was born at Woorak VIC. He from a young age was interested in aviation and built model aircraft and in 1917 joined the Australian Flying Corps, commencing duties as a rigger at Point Cook.

In the late 1920s Mr T D Leech, a lecturer in civil engineering at the Sydney University, with the assistance of five graduates from the University, designed and built a biplane known as the Australian Maid.

In 1926 the RAAF was seeking to obtain a number of new aircraft types, one of which was to be a single-engine biplane for army co-operation and light-bombing duties.

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

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.

Designed by Rimn Isaminskas in Los Angeles, an aeronautical engineer, the Jungster series of light aircraft were simple, strong aircraft, the Jungster I being an aerobatic biplane. The design was based on the German wartime aerobatic training biplane, the Bucker Jungmeister. Designed in 1962 and built to 80% scale, the

The Wichawk is a sporting biplane designed by the Javelin Aircraft Co of Wichita, Kansas, for the amateur builder.

In 1907 L J R (Leslie John Robert) Jones was born on 4 June 1886 at Bathurst

The Tomtit was designed to replace the Avro 504N as a training aircraft, and was built with an all-metal airframe.

William Ewart Hart was born on 20 April 1885 at Parramatta, NSW. He was a dentist who had an interest in flight and who contributed much to early aviation in Australia.

The CB-1 is a two-seat light aerobatic biplane produced in kit form for the American Hatz Association of Gurnea, Illinois.

Introduced to the market in 1998, the Easy Eagle light biplane was designed by Ronald Grosso, who initially supplied plans to interested builders, eventually the rights being obtained to supply plans by Cottage Grove of Wisconsin and in recent times it is marketed by Great Plains Aircraft Supply Co.

Claude Grahame-White was one of Britains early aviators who taught himself to fly and was acclaimed when he took part in the London to Manchester Air Race, the £10,000 prize for which went to the French aviator, Louis Paulhan.

The Great Lakes Aircraft Corp was formed in 1928 in Cleveland, Ohio, to produce sporting aircraft for the US market, and introduced the 2-T-1 in 1929.

In about 1930 in Western Australia Mr E (Ted) Galway, who described himself as a Canadian, designed and built a biplane with wings which could be pivoted on a spanwise line to permit the incidence to the wing to be varied in flight with the additional and important characteristic that

As noted in the Genairco article, General Aircraft was taken over by Tugan Aircraft. A special seaplane variant was built for Rabaul Airways and became VH-URH (c/n 1 or TA-1).

The General Aircraft Company Ltd was formed in the late 1920s at Mascot, NSW, for the purpose of manufacturing a range of light aircraft of Australian design.

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.

In the summer of 1928 Mr Selby Ford, who operated a powerhouse at Beverley, WA, marked out in chalk on the floor of the building the full-size plans of an aircraft he proposed to build

The Focke-Wulfe Fw-44 Stieglitz (Goldfinch) was designed for the Luftwaffe as a basic trainer and the prototype first flew in 1932 piloted by Gerd Achgelis

The Fleet trainer series, which received its name from Major Reuben H Fleet, evolved from the Consolidated Model 14 Husky Junior which was fitted with an 82-kw (110-hp) Warner Scarab engine

The Z1 Sportplane was conceived and designed by Lynn Williams as a light simple sporting biplane designed to look like the Staaken Z1 Flitzer German parasite fighter aircraft which was built to operate from airships in World War I

The Celebrity is one of a number of kit type light aircraft which was originally built by Fisher Flying Products from its facility in Edgeley in North Dakota, the company later moving to a new plant at Woodbridge in Ontario, Canada

The Classic is one of a range of ultra-light aircraft produced in Canada in kit form by Fisher Flying Products and is marketed by the company from Edgeley, North Dakota, the first example making its first flight in 1987

The FP-404 is one of a series of ultra-light aircraft produced by Fisher Flying Products of Edgeley, North Dakota in the United States

The R-80 is an 80% scale replica of the de Havilland DH-82A Tiger Moth manufactured and marketed in kit form by Fisher Flying Products of Edgeley, North Dakota

The Youngster was designed and is marketed by Fisher Flying Products of Edgeley, North Dakota, and is one of a range of light aircraft for construction by amateur builders

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

A Farman Shorthorn was imported in 1914 by well known Sydney businessman, Lebbeus Hordern and part of the Anthony Horderns empire which operated the large Anthony Horderns store in the city of Sydney

The Farman David was a light sporting biplane introduced to the aviation world via the 1919 Paris Salon