The LAK 17 series is a single-seat glider designed by members of the Lithuanian Aero Club to meet JAR-22 Utility category regulations.

The Culp Special was designed by Mr Steven Culp of Culp Specialities of Shreveport, Louisiana and is a development he made to the basic design of the Steen Skybolt to increase its aerobatic performance.

The Eagle is a high-performance biplane produced in kit form by Christen Industries Inc of Afton in Wyoming, USA. Designed for advanced aerobatic training and comfortable cross-country flying, it is also able to meet the requirements of competition standard aerobatics, having a maximum roll rate of 204 degrees per second,

In 1987 Australian light aircraft Pilot, designer and builder, Scott Winton, announced he would built an all-composite light aircraft which was essentially a flying wing with a span of 6.7 m (22 ft) and a weight of 99.7 kg (220 lb), a wing area of 10 m² (107.6 sq ft)

The Wolfpitts PRO is a highly refined variant of the Pitts S1S series of single-seat high-performance aerobatic biplane.

The Fascination D4 is a two-seat side-by-side light kit-built aircraft produced by WD Flugzeugbau of Heubach, Germany.

In the 1990s Performance Aircraft designed the Legend as a high performance sport aircraft for amateur construction but the Company was later acquired by Legend Aircraft of Winnsboro of Lousiana.

The VariEze was designed by Bert Rutan in late 1974. The first aircraft was built over a ten-week period in the spring months of 1975 in the USA, and was first flown on 21 May 1975.

The White Lightning was designed by Howell C Jones Jr for White Lightning Aircraft Corp, of Walterboro, South Carolina, and production of kits for amateur constructors began in September 1986.

Designed by Edward J Swearingen of San Antonio, Texas, the SX-300, when it was released, was described as the ultimate kit-built aircraft, being the fastest, the most expensive and the most complex to build.

The Glasair III is a dual, control aircraft developed for the home-built market by Stoddard Hamilton Aircraft of Arlington, Washington, as a more powerful version of the II series.

In the early 1980s a programme was commenced in Moscow to develop a high performance aerobatic aircraft for competition.

Stemme GmbH & Co of Strausberg was formed in 1985 (in Berlin) to develop high performance gliders, and the prototype S-10 (D-KKST) was flown for the first time on 6 July 1986.

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

The Maverick was designed by Graham Swannel and manufactured by Skytek Australia Pty Ltd of Willeton, WA.

The MX-2 is a fairly new design aimed at the unlimited aerobatic market, being designed in the United States by Chris Meyer for MXR Technologies Inc of Boynton Beach, Florida, and built by Composite Universal.

The Monoswift is a single-seat high-performance sporting monoplane designed to resemble in many ways a scaled down P-51 Mustang. It was designed and built in New Zealand by Maurice Paton.