This was a machine designed and built in Australia. It is a low-wing sporting monoplane developed in Queensland using the fuselage basically of the Foxcon Terrier 100, which has been developed and produced at Mackay and provided in kit form, lengthening it, making some other changes to meet the needs

The DA-20 series was introduced to the Diamond range of training aircraft, being a two-seat trainer aimed at the market for trainers before the DA-40 and DA-42 aircraft.

The DA-42 Twin Star was developed by Diamond Aircraft Industries Gmbh at Wiener Neustadt in Austria from the DA-40 series and was built in the company’s plant in Vienna, the aircraft being unusual at that time in that it was fitted with modern diesel engines.

In August 2008 Diamond announced it was introducing two new models of the Twin Star, the first being the DA-42-NG with 120-kw (170-hp) turbo diesel engines, and the DA-42-L360 with normally aspirated Lycoming IO-360 engines, the latter being specifically aimed at the US market.

The prototype Chipmunk (CF-DIO-X), which was designed by W J Jakimiuk for de Havilland Canada, was flown for the first time on 22 May 1946.

In the early 1980s Delta Technology in the United States produced a number of ultralight aircraft of high-wing configuration with conventional tail surfaces on a monoplane wing, the ailerons and elevators being operated by a control stick, the rudder being operated by pedals.

Denney Aircraft Co was formed in 1985 in Boise, Idaho, to build a two-seat ultra-light aircraft, and this received the name Kitfox, being available in kit form, and 21 kits were delivered to constructors during the first year.

Armand Deperdussin, who founded the Societe pour les Appareils Deperdussin in 1910, obtained the services of Mr Berchereau as chief designer to develop a series of aircraft.

The Desoutter series of aircraft was produced in two models by the Desoutter Aircraft Co Ltd at Croydon Aerodrome, Surrey.

The story of the DH.88 Comet series of racing aircraft is well known and has been told many times.

Designed as a successor to the Moth biplane series of light aircraft, the Moth Minor had a similar performance to the Tiger Moth, although it had far less power.

The Aircruiser is a low-wing, fixed-tricycle undercarriage four-seat monoplane of all-metal construction designed initially by Henry Millicer. Mr Millicer is well known for designing the Victa Airtourer and the Aircruiser.

An aircraft known as the Brumby was designed and developed by Aero Composite of Bankstown, NSW, in conjunction with Spectrum Technology Pyt Ltd, as a high-performance sporting monoplane.

The Bu 181 series was designed as a sports and touring aircraft, the prototype flying for the first time in February 1939.

The Mustang I was designed by the late David Long, and was originally known as the Midget Mustang, being of all metal construction, the prototype flying for the first time in 1948.

The Mustang I was designed by the late David Long and was originally known as the Midget Mustang, being of all-metal construction and flying for the first time in 1948.

The Cherry BX-2 is a light two-seat, side-by-side, sporting amateur-built aircraft designed by Max Brandli of BX Aviation in Switzerland.

The Bristol M-1C, designed by Captain F S Barnwell in 1916, was a breakaway from contemporary design standard because, as a wire-braced monoplane, it represented an attempt to produce an aerodynamically clean airframe.

This series of light aircraft was designed by BRM Aero Sro in the Czech Republic to meet world LSA regulations, and is aimed at the flight training school, glider towing and recreational flying markets. It is built in a number of models, the NG-5 series being supplied as the Bristell

Raymond Broome was interested in designing his own ultralight aircraft and in the late 1980s commenced to build an aircraft, this being along the lines of the Bedson Resurgam series.

In 2009 Brumby aircraft of Cowra, NSW announced it was to build and market a high wing model of his successful Brumby low wing monoplane, the latter becoming known as the Model 600 and the new model became known as the Brumby High wing 610 LSA, the partially completed prototype

The BO-208 series of light aircraft emanated from the prototype built in the USA by Bjorn Andreasson, and flown for the first time on 10 October 1958.

The Viking and Super Viking single-engine high-performance touring aircraft with a retractable tricycle undercarriage was manufactured in the United States initially by Bellanca from 1967, 1,356 examples having been completed by the type production concluded in 1975.

The Champion 7ECA Citabria was a modernised version of the Champion 7EC Traveller and was first produced by Champion.

Following Bellanca’s acquisition of the Champion Aircraft Corp in September 1970, production of the fully aerobatic model of the Citabria, the Model 7DCAB, was continued.

The Nynja was designed by Phillipe Prevot and is a logical development of the company’s previous designs, the Skyranger and the Swift.

The Skyranger Swift is a development of the Skyranger and optimised to take advantage of engines ranging from 60-kw (80-hp) to 75 kw (100-hp) and was basically a Skyranger with a new smaller sports wing, the company providing an aircraft which benefited from higher cruising speeds and more comfortable flight

The Skyranger is an ultra-light aircraft that was designed in Toulouse, France, by Philippe Prevot in the mid 1990s.

Allen Rupert Betteridge was born on 11 October 1892, and was educated in Broken Hill, NSW, becoming a motor mechanic.

Designed by Vladimir Talanczuk, a Ukrainian-born aeronautical engineer, the Chinook over the years has been produced in a number of models, either single-seat or two-seat and it is a high-wing ultra-light aircraft, the prototype of which was flown for the first time on 12 December 1982 at Wizard Lake, Alberta

In the late 1930s Bell Aircraft Corp was looking at producing a shipboard variant of the Bell P-39 Aircobra, the design, known as the XFL-1 Airbonita, being powered by an Allison XV-1710-6 twelve-cylinder VEE engine installed behind cockpit driving a three-blade Curtiss propeller via a shaft through the cockpit.

The Bellanca Cruisair series of light aircraft was designed by Guiseppe Bellanca and built by his company, the famous Bellanca Aircraft Corporation of New Castle, Delaware in the1940’s.

In 1971 the Bellanca Aircraft Corporation, which produced aircraft such as the Citabria and Decathlon (originally built by the Champion Aircraft Co), added a new model to the range.

Of similar appearance to the Grumman Cougar and Piper Seminole, like those aircraft the Duchess was designed as a low-cost, high-volume, production aircraft featuring honeycomb-bonded wings, handed propellers, and electrically-operated flaps and trim tabs. It was aimed at pilots stepping up from single to twin engined operations, and for those

The Skipper was designed by Beechcraft to meet the needs of aero clubs throughout the world for a light trainer with around 75-kw (100-hp), with good economy of operation, and the capability of using lower octane fuels.

Developed to meet the need for a twin-engine aircraft of similar size to the Bonanza, but much smaller than the Twin Bonanza, the Travel Air was essentially a scaled-down Twin Bonanza with the cabin of the Bonanza and the wings, tail, and undercarriage of the military trainer, the Beech Mentor.

In the 1960s companies such as Soloy looked at re-engining aircraft with turbines and to this end Soloy developed variants of the Cessna 206 and 207, receiving orders in 1964 for 20 Model 206 aircraft.

The Honey Bee was a single-seat all-metal light aircraft designed by William Chana and Kenneth Coward, engineers with Convair in San Diego, in the 1970s. The first example was flown for the first time on 12 July 1952.

The prototype of the Beechcraft 23 series was flown for the first time on 23 October 1961 and, following certification, deliveries of production machines began during the following year.

The prototype of the Musketeer series of light four-seat monoplanes was flown for the first time on 23 October 1961, and introduced to the Beechcraft range in 1962.