The Pazmany PL-1, known as the Laminar for its laminar flow wing, was designed by Ladislao Pazmany for the home-built aircraft market, the prototype flying for the first time on 23 March 1962.
In 2009 Piper Aircraft was taken over by the Brunei Government and at this time Piper announced it would be producing a new training aircraft known as the Pipersport, this aircraft to be a derivative of the Czech Aircraft SportCruiser which is produced in the Czech Republic.
The Sinus is one of a series of motor-gliders produced by Pipistrel in Slovenia and which has been available as a complete aircraft for some years, with over 300 examples of the series being delivered, and which in recent years has been available in kit form for the amateur builder.
The Pitts Special series of aircraft was designed by Curtiss Pitts, the well-known American designer, as a high-performance, light sporting biplane, the first example, known as the S-1 Special, flying in September 1944.
The Kiebitz B was designed as a light touring sporting biplane in Germany by Mr Michael Platzer at Guxhagen in Germany and is available to amateur builders in kit form.
The PB-1 is a single-seat ultralight aircraft produced by PoorBoy Aviation of Minot, North Dakota and has been available to the market for some years in three variants, the PB-U, the PB-1 and the PB-H and is aimed at the market for a simple design with a simple construction technique.
The STOL King was designed and produced by Preceptor Aircraft based at /Rutherfordton in North Carolina as an amateur-built light aircraft to be available as a plans or it.
Pterodactyl in the United States produced a number of ultralight aircraft for the sports aircraft market and these included the Ptraveller, the Pfledge and the Ascender II.
The Knight Twister is a single-seat, single-engine, aerobatic sport biplane designed in 1928, built and first flown in 1932 by Vernon W Payne, and since then it has been marketed in plan form for home constructors.
The PL-9 was designed by Ladislao Pazmany and is one of a number of designs produced by him over the years to meet the requirements of the light sport aircraft market.
The Poliwagen was a light sporting aircraft designed for amateur construction of composite structure. The first of three prototypes made its initial flight in 1977.
The Sabre 1K-1R was a high-wing strut-braced ultra-light aircraft with an open cockpit marketed by Pour le Merite Ultralights of Nagambie, VIC in the 1980s and was designed to meet ANO 95.10.
The Jeanie Teenie was designed by Calvin Parker of Coolidge, Arizona and was his first design and was known as the JT-1 and was first shown to the public in 1967, its initial development taking place in Alabama.
The Bush Boar STOL 19-8472 was a one-off two-seat light sport aircraft designed and built by Robert Pavan. It commenced life as a Calair CA-21 Skyfox and was registered 55-0608 on 5 November 1990.
The PL-4A was designed by Ladislao Pazmany as an easy-to-build, low-cost, aircraft for amateur builders, and the prototype was flown for the first time on 12 July 1972.
The Sky Scout was designed by Bernard Pietenpol in the 1920s and was intended for home construction by the amateur builder using readily available materials, ie wood and fabric, and using a 15-kw (20-hp) Ford Model T or 30-kw (40-hp) Model A engine as a power plant
The PA-16 was a development of the PA-15 Vagabond, being a stretched and refined variant to seat four, having an extra fuel tank, and other refinements. Production only proceeded for one year and some 736 were completed.
The Baby Lakes was a scaled-down version of the very popular Great Lakes Sports Trainer designed by Barney Oldfield in Cleveland, Ohio, for the amateur builder.
The Elite was designed by Murphy Aircraft of Chilliwack in British Colombia and is one of a range of light kit planes produced by the company for the sport pilot.
The Cougar is a four-seat development of the Cheetah designed and developed by Morgan AeroWorks of Taree, NSW, formerly Miranda Aircraft, the prototype (19-7298) flying for the first time in late 2009.
The Legal Eagle is an ultralight aircraft designed and marketed initially in the United States by Leonard Milholland and is a high-wing, strut-braced aircraft with a modified Volkswagen engine mounted in the tractor configuration and with a tailwheel undercarriage.
The Skyhook was a homebuilt gyrocopter designed and built by Ted Minty of Turramurra, NSW in the 1970s, the prototype flying for the first time on 1 January 1878.
The Cheetah was designed by Garry Morgan of Miranda Investments as a high-performance light touring monoplane fitted with the Australian designed and built Jabiru 2200-cc engine, though other engines may be installed.
The Super Diamond is a single-seat light sporting aircraft produced in kit form by Miranda Investments of Riverwood, NSW, later becoming Morgan Aero Works of Taree.
The Mitchell Wing P-38, also known as the Lightning after the World War II fighter, was designed by James Mead and produced in kit form for the amateur aircraft market by the Mitchell Aircraft Corporation.
The Mitchell Wing U-2 was an ultralight design which was basically a flying wing with a small single-seat cockpit, a bubble canopy and a pusher engine and, designed by Donald Mitchell, was developed initially in 1980 as an experimental category motor glider.
In the early 1980s Mr Maxwell Clear, a New Zealander, travelled to the United States to look for a microlight aircraft to purchase but could not find anything he considered suitable so on returning to New Zealand he formed a group with ten other like-minded aviators and decided to build
The B-22 Bantam has been produced for some years now by Micro Aviation of Te Kowhai, being developed as a conventional three-axis control ultra-light, the prototype being flown by Keith Trillo in November 1983.
The Micro Aviation Bantam series was designed by Max Clear in New Zealand as a microlight sporting aircraft and was made available as a complete ready-to-fly aircraft that complied with the Federation Aeronautique Internationale microlight rules, as well as the BCAR regulations in the United Kingdom.
The MicroWings Cubby and Tri-Cubby were designed and developed in South Africa by Kobus van Staden and Adam Nagorski and the aircraft is basically a 75% scale replica of the Piper J-3 Cub but using modern materials and technology.
Known as the Flying Flea, this series of aircraft was designed by Henri Mignet, the first model built in any numbers being the HM-14 (which see) and was followed by a whole range of variations.
The Pou Du Ciel, or Sky Louse, also known as the Flying Flea, was designed by French inventor, M Mignet, in 1933 as a light, cheap, easy-to-build-and-fly aircraft for amateur constructors.
Societe D’Exploitation De Aeronefs Henry Mignet was set up in France in Saintonge Provence to develop the Mignet series of ultralight aircraft and has developed the HM-1000 Balerit (Balerit - Hawk or Falcon, a small bird of prey) which is a much simpler aircraft to fly but only has two-axis