During World War II George Miles designed a light transport for military use, seeing a need for a light transport that could operate into short unprepared strips, particularly in theatres of war such as in Burma.

Following the success of the Miles Hawk series, and due to the limited availability of the Cirrus III engine, Miles decided to redesign the Hawk as the Hawk Major with a Gipsy Major engine, this unit being readily available.

The M.2 Hawk was a two-seat, low-wing, cantilever monoplane designed by F G Miles in 1933 and which, like most Miles aircraft, was built in some numbers by Phillips & Powis Ltd in Berkshire.

The Aries was a venture by F G Miles Ltd to improve the Gemini four-seat private aircraft and the prototype first flew in February 1951, being shown at RAF Hendon in July 1951 and later became G-AMDJ (c/n 1002), receiving its Certificate of Airworthiness on 13 June 1952.

The Mynah was an ultra-light designed by Wallace McNair and built in Auckland, New Zealand in the mid 1980s and its construction was along the lines of the Lincoln Sport.

The Messerschmitt Bf-108 Taifun (Typhoon) was designed by Professor Willi Messerschmitt and built by the Bayerische Flugzeugwerke in Regensburg in 1934 for the Challenge de Tourism Internationale Race to be held in Warsaw in Poland.

The MH.1521 Broussard is a light utility transport seating six designed and built by Avions Max Holste at Rheims, the prototype being flown for the first time on 17 November 1952.

The first commercial ultralight aircraft was the Scout designed by Ron Wheeler in Sydney and tested in 1972 and at that time put into series production.

The Drifter is a single or two-seat light open cockpit aircraft usually registered under AUF / RAA rules and produced in a number of variants with a variety of engines.

The BO-105 was one of the first light, twin-engine turbine helicopters built, using an advanced rotor developed with the assistance of Aerospatiale, with fibreglass blades attached to a flexible hub of forged titanium.

The Monsun was a two-seat light monoplane built in Germany in the 1960s and produced in some numbers with the Lycoming O-320 engine.

The Bush Cocky is a single-engine single-seat light sporting aircraft designed by John McCarron in Queensland and is a development of the Winton Cricket and Jackaroo series for the ultra-light aircraft market.

Mr Alan William McFarlane of Coburg, VIC in 1936 purchased an incomplete Heath Parasol light aircraft, work on which had been carried out by a Mr James Keen.

In 1909 the Australian Government offered a prize of £10,000 ($20,000) for an Australian made aeroplane which would be suitable for what was then considered to be military purposes.

The Martin Aircraft Co Ltd is based in Christchurch, NZ, and was formed in 2004 with the assistance of investors, subsequently putting together a team of engineers to continue and complete the development of the Jetpack designed and built in the United States many years before by Glenn Martin.

The Maule M-4 series of light STOL monoplanes was designed by Belford D Maule for Maule Aircraft Corp in 1960, and more than 1,600 examples have been delivered in a variety of models and production continues in Georgia.

The next series was the M-7, which commenced with the M-7-235 Super Rocket five seater with a 175-kw (235-hp) Avco Lycoming IO-540-W engine; MX-7 Star Rocket with the short span wing of the M-5, increased fuel capacity, ailerons and flaps of the M-7, and the fuselage of the M-6, and

The Merlin was designed in 1986 by John Burch in Canada as a two-seat light aircraft for the amateur construction market.

Manufactured by Aeronautica Macchi SA at Varese in Italy, the MB-308 was built in two basic variants, the two-seat 308 and the three-seat 308G.

Preliminary design work on the MB-326 series began in 1954. Construction of a prototype also started during that year, and the first flight was made in December 1957.

For some years the New Zealand Government considered a replacement for the ageing and fatigue prone Strikemasters with No 14 squadron at Ohakea and, after postponing selection a number of times, announced the purchase of either 16 or 18 MB-339Cs in early 1990 –the RNZAF eventually receiving 18 aircraft with

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.

The Magni series of autogyros is produced by Magni Gyro di Magni Vittoria at Besnate in Italyfor the worlds light sports aircraft market. The M-14-Scout 2000, known as the Millenium model, has either the Rotax 914 turbo engine of 86-kw (115-hp) or Rotax 912 ULS 75-kw (100-hp) engine installed.

The Shrike was a development of the Victa Aircruiser. The rights to the Aircruiser had been obtained by AESL (Aero Engine Services Ltd) from Victa Consolidated Industries when it closed its aircraft manufacturing plant at Milperra, NSW and it was re-designed and became the AESL CT-4 series in New Zealand.

The Klemm Kl 25 series of light, low-wing cantilever monoplanes with an open cockpit was the first aircraft manufactured by Leicht Flugzeugbau Klemm.

The Gnatsum series of aircraft was designed and built in France by Marcel Jurca and the name Gnatsum is Mustang reversed.

The Escapade and Highlander are produced by Just Aircraft as light sporting aircraft in kit-plane form at the company’s premises at Walhalla in South Carolina.

The Just Aircraft SuperStol is a development of the company’s Highlander developed for the amateur-built market and it was designed and marketed by Just Aircraft of Walhalla

The Jora was a light aircraft produced in the Czech Republic produced by Jora SRO in Vraclav. Looking very similar to the Fantasy Air Cora, which made its public debut at the Fredrichshafen Air Show in Germany in May 1997, it becamepopular due to its low cost and good performance.

The McCandless M-4 Gyroplane was a British single-seater ultra-light autogyro first flown in 1961 and was initially powered by a Triumph motor-cycle engine, this later being replaced by a Norton motor-cycle engine but this was also found not to be suitable for installation in such a machine and was abandoned

On 27 June 1956 the prototype of a single-seat light monoplane, designed by M Marcel Jurca for amateur construction, was flown in France.

The D-112 Club series was developed from the D-11 Club series, embodying some major design refinement, in the late 1960s, being the most popular of the Jodel series of light touring and sporting monoplanes in France

Photograph: Jodel D-150 Sky Prince VH-LPN (c/n N189) at Wedderburn, NSW in August 2005 (David C Eyre) Country of origin: France Description: Two-seat light sport monoplane Power Plant: One 78 kw (105 hp) Potez 4 E20 four-cylinder in-line air-cooled engine Specifications: Wingspan: 8.15 m (26 ft 9 in) Length: 6.3

Photograph: Jodel DR-1050M Sky King VH-KVC (c/n V67) at Narromine, NSW in September 2012 (David C Eyre) Country of origin: France Description: Three-seat light touring monoplane Power Plant: One 75 kw (100 hp) Continental O-200A four-cylinder horizontally-opposed air-cooled engine Specifications: Wingspan: 8.72 m (28 ft 7½ in) Length: 6.35 m

Photograph: Jodel DR-1051 Sicile Record ZK-JOD (c/n 350) in June 1988 (Keith Morris –NZCIVAIR) Country of origin: France Description: Two-seat light sport monoplane Power Plant: One 78 kw (105 hp) Potez 4 E-20A four-cylinder air-cooled engine Specifications: Wingspan: 8.72 m (28 ft 7½ in) Length: 6.5 m (20 ft 10

Like many ultralight aircraft in recent times

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

Leslie John Robert Jones, in conjunction with Dr N P Boulton, in 1927 commenced the design and construction, and later testing

The Societe des Avions Jodel, formed in 1946, designed and built the single-seat Model D-9 Bebe light monoplane as a cheap, easy-to-build-and-fly aircraft for amateur constructors.

The D-18 Sovereign was derived from the Jodel D-11 series but it is smaller and lighter all round so that it may be fitted with smaller engines, ie in the 41-kw (55-hp) to 60-kw (80-hp) class.