The prototype of the S-16 Shekari (N8072U) with a 60-kw (80-hp) Rotax 912 UL engine first flew on 25 March 1997, being of tricycle undercarriage configuration.

The S-17 Stinger is a single-seat high-wing light sporting aircraft with a pusher engine produced by Rans Aircraft in Hays, Kansas in the United States and is supplied in kit form.

The S-19 is a high-performance, all-metal two-seat high-wing light side-by-side configuration monoplane with a tricycle undercarriage produced in kit form by Rans Aircraft of Hays, Kansas and designed by Randal Schlitter in 2006 as a purpose-designed aircraft taking advantage of the recently, at the time, new regulations relating to the

Unveiled at the EAA event at Oshkosh in Wisconsin in July 2013, the S-20 Raven was the latest of a long line of light aircraft developed by Rans, this model being a development of the S-6S Coyote and designed to replace that model on the market.

For some years the Canadian company, Raven Aircraft, specialised in building and supplying parts for Pitts S-1 and S-2 aerobatic aircraft.

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.

Over the years the Berkut has been known by a number of names, depending on the company providing the kits, but these have included Renaissance Composites Inc of Santa Monica, California, and Berkut Engineering.

The Rans series of aircraft is produced by Rans Inc at Hays in Kansas, USA.

The Ragabond is a scale single-seat replica of the popular Piper Vagabond produced in the 1950s and is produced by RagWing Plans Service of Craytonville Airfield, South Carolina.

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.

The RW19 Storch is one of a series of ultra-light aircraft designed by Roger Mann as a light sporting aircraft, plans being supplied.

The Special biplane was designed and made available to the amateur builder by RagWing Aircraft Designers of Belton, South Carolina, and is a low powered aircraft similar in configuration to the Pitts S-1 designed to create a relatively fast machine for cross-country flying but very small and powered by relatively

The BushCat is a two-seat side-by-side strut –braced high-wing monoplane designed to meet US LSA regulations and was developed from the Company’s earlier design, the Rainbow aircraft Cheetah XLS.

The Ramphos is a trike developed in 1998 to operate for the enjoyment of tourists requiring sightseeing flights over local beaches in Italy and which would be economical and easy to operate as a flying boat.

Rand Robinson Engineering Inc of Huntington Beach, California, was formed in the United States in 1974 to market plans for the KR-1 single-seat, and KR-2 two-seat series of amateur constructed aircraft.

The S-4 / S-5 Coyote I series of ultra-light aircraft was introduced to the Company’s range in 1983 at its facility at Hays, Kansas.

The Syndetta is a single-seat ultra-light aircraft of tubular steel construction with fabric covering designed and built by Joseph Kunovsky of Winston Hills, a suburb of Sydney, in the 1990s.

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.

Thomas Stoddard commenced development of a light aircraft in 1975 and set up a facility at the Cedar Grove Airport in Seattle.

A further design by the Stoddard Hamilton organisation at Arlington, Washington, like the Glasair the GlaStar is produced in kit form and has become very popular, providing good performance on the power available.

The GlaStar Sportsman, as it was initially known, has been described as the ideal small family, STOL go anywhere aeroplane.

The Stolp SA-100 Starduster was designed by Louis Stolp in the United States as a single-seat light sporting biplane and was aimed at the popular sport aviation market in America at that time.

The Starduster Too was designed by Louis Stolp and George Adamas for cross-country flying with an open cockpit and has been marketed by the Stolp Starduster Corp of Oroville, California, as a open sports plane for the amateur constructor.

The SA-500, sometimes known as the Starlet, or the Sprite, is built and marketed by Stolp Starduster Corp in Oroville, California.

The Acroduster Too is one of a series of light sporting aircraft produced by Stolp Starduster Corp of Oroville, California and is a fully aerobatic two-seat aircraft stressed to +9 and -9 G.

The prototype of the Playboy, the SA-3A, was designed by the well-known American light aircraft designer, Ray Stits.

In 1957 Louis Stolp and George Adams designed and built a light single-seat sporting biplane known as the Starduster, and subsequently marketed plans, components and basic materials to amateur constructors.

The Stits SA-5A of early 1955 was the first of the Flut-R-Bug series, this being a single-engine single-seat sporting aircraft designed around a converted Volkswagen four-cylinder powerplant.

The 2/3 Spitfire, as it was initially known, has been produced by the Supermarine Aircraft Factory at Archerfield, QLD and was a fairly new foray into producing scale replicas of well known warbirds in Australasia.

The Playmate was one of a series of designs of light aircraft produced by Raymond Stits in the United States, the SA-11 Playmate being produced in two variants, the SA-11A fitted with a 63-kw (85-hp) Continental C-85 engine, this being a single-seater; and the SA-11B being a two seater with

Squadron Aviation in Ohio in the United States produced a number of scale replicas of World War I fighters, including the Spad XIII, Fokker D-VII and the RAF SE-5a.

The GyroBee was designed by Ralph Taggart of the Michigan State University and made available as free documentation to interested builders, and in due course was produced in kit form by Star Bee Gyro of Worcester, Massachusetts for amateur builders.

The Lonestar is a single-seat basic utility helicopter of all-metal construction marketed by Star Aviation Inc of New Braunfels in Texas, and is fitted with a 82-kw (110-hp) Hirth engine driving, via a chain, a composite main rotor.

The Starfire Firebolt, a two-seat high-performance aerobatic biplane, also known as the Starfire Firebolt Convertible [convertible because the cockpit canopy can be quickly removed] and the MacKenzie Skybolt, was designed by G H McKenzie and was produced by Starfire Aviation of Tempe, Arizona and was produced in small numbers, nine

Built in Brazil in South America, the Starfox V6 Super is one of a number of light aircraft produced for the light aircraft market and more than 2,300 examples are said to have been built.

The Sea Eagle was designed and built by William “Bill” Starke of Townsville, QLD and was flown by him in the initial performance trials.

The Starlite is a single-seat light sports aircraft designed by Mark Brown (who also designed the Aero Design Pulsar).

Mr Lamar Steen designed the Skybolt with simplicity of construction as the main aim. A two-seat fully-aerobatic biplane, it was designed to be constructed by amateur constructors.

Sorrell Aviation in the United States produced a series of ultralight aircraft, including the Guppy and the Hiperlight.