Rag Wing Aircraft provides plans for aircraft to be built by the amateur builder and the designs use simple construction techniques using locally available materials.

In the late 1920s James Church built a light aircraft known as the Church Midwing JC-1 for racing using the fuselage of a Heath Parasol, the aircraft being a wire-braced mid-wing aircraft.

With more than 500 examples built, and over 750 kits sold around the world, the Quad City Challenger series has been very popular on the ultra-light / micro-light market, being available in a variety of models

W B (Bill) Barber designed and built a single-seat, all-composite, mid engined light aircraft powered by a Rotax 503 engine.