In 1930/1931 Mr Ronald Ashworth of Burwood, NSW, designed and built a parasol wing aircraft, Baby Bee, at Blair Park, Croydon, making its first flight in April that year.
The Karaone is one of a series of light aircraft produced by Australian Aircraft Works. This company obtained rights to a series of aircraft from the US Company, Grover Textiles, the parent company deciding not to continue its financial backing to its ultra-light division, Grover Aircraft of Hendersonville, North Carolina,
The Hornet Sport was produced by Australian Aircraft Kits as a development aircraft for a planned future single-seat high-performance sporting aircraft constructed from composites.
Very little is known about this aircraft. However, information available indicates that it was probably a Blanik glider that has been modified by Australian Aircraft Kits of Taree by the installation of a Rotax 912S engine in the nose in an attempt to make it into a self-launched glider.
These two were ultralight designs by Arthur Armour, initially of Fairfield, NSW but who later moved to Taree, NSW and continued design and construction of ultra-light aircraft there.
The Baby Bipe was an ultralight aircraft designed and built by Arthur Armour in the 1980s and was displayed at the Australian International Airshow at Avalon in 1995.
The Albany aeroplane was a single-engine monoplane along the lines of a Bleriot XI built in Albany WA in about 1916/17 by Messrs C Layton, Robert Reynolds and Alexander Fraser and a Mr G Bristow is said to have been involved, though one record indicates the spelling of his name
Following the cessation of hostilities in World War I the Austral Monoplane Co of Hunter Street, Sydney, advertised ‘you can fly with a motor cycle engine – working plans £1.
In the 1940s in New Zealand a scaled-down replica of an Oxford was constructed using two Pobjoy Niagara radial engines which had been removed from the General Aircraft Monospar ZK-AET (ex VH-UVM) and which, after a short service with the RNZAF, had been retired and used as Instructional airframe No
The Auster series of light aircraft has been popular in Australasia over the years and stories abound about what they have been used for and their roles in country areas.
The UD-2 was one of a number of designs produced by Steven Cohen, Known as the UD-2 (Ugly Duckling) it was of alloy construction and fitted with a Rotax two-stroke engine.
Charles Auld of Brooklyn Park, SA, constructed an autogyro along the lines of a Cierva and it was fitted with a 34-kw (45-hp) Anzani engine but is not known to have flown.
In about 2000 Mr Abbaz, a resident of Sydney, commenced the design and construction of a two-seat in tandem monoplane with a pusher engine and a tricycle undercarriage.
The X6 was designed in New Zealand as a tandem, two-seat shoulder-wing high-performance sporting monoplane in the late 1970s and construction of a prototype commenced.
This was one of a series of aircraft designed and built for the September 1909 Defence Department competition for the best and most suitable aeroplane for military purposes.
The Wolff WRD-01 project was begun by Bryce Wolff in 1994, being a self designed and built aircraft originally aimed at registration as an ultra-light in the 95.10 category.
This was an ultralight aircraft which, on 27 March 2002, was registered 19-3706 (c/n 231) with the RAA and was fitted with a Lycoming 0-320 engine. It was struck off the register on 12 July 2011.
Very little is known about this aircraft but it seems it was placed on the RAA register on 8 November 2006 as 19-4806 (c/n H-20001) and remained on the register for two years, being withdrawn from use on 31 October 2008 and was removed from the register.
One of a number of light aircraft designed by Gary Morgan. It was a development of the Cheetah but was heavily modified, having a new tail and elevator and an enlarged fin.
The Bonnie was built by Mr Ronald Gower using an incomplete project commenced by L J R Jones. Powered by a converted Henderson motor-cycle engine, its first flight was scheduled to occur at Pyes Estate at Quakers Hill, west of Sydney, on 18 December 1932, but engine problems delayed the
This was a three -axis two-seat ultralight monoplane designed and built by Paul Badcock. It was of all metal construction with a fibreglass engine cowling and a tricycle undercarriage.
This ultralight aircraft was designed and built by Australian Aero Engines Corp. Little is known about it but it became 19-3974 (c/n 1) and was registered from 16 September 2003 to October 2006.
The Swift was designed and built by Mr Walter Szajnoha of Hazelbrook, NSW and was completed and flown in 2004, being registered under RAA regulations as 19-3159.
The Nova is a single-seat low-wing all-composite high-performance light aircraft designed and built by Walter Szajnoha of Hazelbrook, NSW, being registered under ultra-light regulations as 19-4078.
The Wasp was a single-seat light aircraft designed in 1978 by Neville White. It was an open cockpit, aircraft, with a Fuji Robin 250-cc engine, a single-cycle unit with a belt drive.
The Bennett Condor ZK-CON (c/n 001) was built basically along the lines of a CAB Minicab but using Jodel D-11 plans, this enabling the builder to meet New Zealand micro-light class weight restrictions.
In the 1920s Robert Burton commenced construction of a light monoplane aircraft at Tempe, NSW in a shed, stating he was using parts from an Avro 504 he had obtained.
Mr George Bellchambers, who lived in an Adelaide suburb, built a glider of his own design in about 1919 and an attempt was made to fly the aircraft at Wall Flat on the Murray River but this was not successful.
The Cobra was a one-off single-seat light sporting aircraft fitted with a four-cylinder engine with a fixed tailwheel undercarriage and registered with the RAA on 4 April 2002.
This was an ultra-light aircraft designed, built and flown by Christopher Conroy, who later designed the Sparrow and Sparrowhawk range of light aircraft.
The Cli-Mate commenced life as a Foxcon Terrier 200 but received some major changes during its construction. It initially became ZK-EZY² (c/n NZ2006) and was registered on 21 July 2004 to the Paul Hopper and Rex Swenson Partnership.