The Funk Aircraft Company was formed in 1941 by twin brothers, Joe and Howard Funk, in association with William and K Ray Jenson, taking over the assets of Akron Aircraft Incorporated which was set up at Akron in Ohio for the Funk brothers by local business men in 1937

The Jeep was a single-seat high-wing braced monoplane built to Australian standard ANO95/10 with an enclosed cockpit and a pusher engine designed and produced in small numbers by Leigh Wakeland in the 1980s

The RJF-2 is a light high-wing sporting monoplane with a pusher engine designed and built by Mr Robert Francis

The Hornet S-10 was a tail-less flying-wing of composite construction designed and developed by Mr David Betteridge of Free Flight Gliders of Adelaide, SA, this Company planning to start production of the Hornet as the Model 130S, describing the aircraft as a flying-wing minimum aircraft

The Javelin was a single-seat ultralight sporting aircraft marketed in Australia by Flight 95 of Lindfield NSW in the mid-1980s and had a single-surface with Dacron covered high-wing, this being a strut-braced monoplane and which itself was a development of the company’s Mustang

The Z1 Sportplane was conceived and designed by Lynn Williams as a light simple sporting biplane designed to look like the Staaken Z1 Flitzer German parasite fighter aircraft which was built to operate from airships in World War I

The Catalina was designed and built by Fly Synthesis in Italy as a simple to build and operate amphibian with an electrically operated retractable undercarriage, which can be operated with a lowering system which, in the event of a problem, can be lowered and locked into position under gravity

The Fly Synthesis Syncro is one of a series of light aircraft produced in Italy for the light aircraft market and was introduced at the 2009 Aero Show at Friedrichshafen, being supplied only as a complete and ready-to-fly aircraft

Fly Synthesis was established in 1985 when development of a series of light aircraft was commenced at Friuli in the Venezia region of north-east Italy

The Tucano is a 70% scale replica of the Embraer Tucano two-seat military trainer produced in Italy for the sports aircraft market and by mid-2015 more than 12 kits had been completed around the world and production of kits continues

The MD-3 Rider was designed by Jaroslav Postal, the prototype [OK-JUR-06] being flown at Kunovice in the Czech Republic on 25 February 2004, being followed by the first production aircraft [OK-JUR-17] on 7 August that year

The Celebrity is one of a number of kit type light aircraft which was originally built by Fisher Flying Products from its facility in Edgeley in North Dakota, the company later moving to a new plant at Woodbridge in Ontario, Canada

The Canuck commenced life in the 1940s as a light aircraft designed by Robert Noury and was initially known as the Noury N-75, the prototype making its first flight at Mount Hope in Ontario, Canada in 1944

The Classic is one of a range of ultra-light aircraft produced in Canada in kit form by Fisher Flying Products and is marketed by the company from Edgeley, North Dakota, the first example making its first flight in 1987

Flown for the first time in 1982 and released to the market as a kit shortly thereafter by Fisher Flying Products, the FP-101 was a popular cheap light aircraft around the world

The FP-303 was designed by Fisher Flying Products as a low-cost ultralight, being designed by Fisher’s chief engineer as an ‘inexpensive yet a joy to fly, aircraft

The FP-404 is one of a series of ultra-light aircraft produced by Fisher Flying Products of Edgeley, North Dakota in the United States

The FP-606 Skybaby was designed in 1986 to comply with the then FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles category for light sporting aircraft, the category allowing a maximum empty weight of 115 kg (254 lb)

Fisher Flying Products of Edgeley, North Dakota for some years has produced a range of light kit planes for amateur construction in the ultra-light category, and many examples of the series have been built and flown in Australia and New Zealand

The Youngster was designed and is marketed by Fisher Flying Products of Edgeley, North Dakota, and is one of a range of light aircraft for construction by amateur builders

The P-51D is one of a number of scaled down North American P-51 Mustangs available to amateur builders in the United States

The FK-9 series is produced in a number of models to meet customer requirements in Germany and the type has been distributed in this region by Silent Wings Aviation

Designed by Robert Baker, and built for the ultralight / microlight market, the Bobcat was a development of the company’s SuperCat, being a single-seat light sporting aircraft

B & F Technik Vertriebs GmbH was founded in 1990 by two students, Otto and Peter Funk who set up a facility at Hofheim, moving later in 1995 to Speyer

The Avenger is part of a range of ultra-light aircraft produced by Fisher Flying Products of Edgeley, North Dakota in the US and is a single-seat monoplane with a Rotax engine of 30-kw (40-hp) but engines ranging up to 48-kw (65-hp) may be installed

The Scooter was designed by Mr K Flagor in July 1965 as a small ultra-light sporting monoplane for construction by amateur builders

The F-11, known as the ‘sporty’, was designed by Christopher Falconar in Canada for amateur builders and is built by Falconar Avia at Edmonton in Alberta and supplied in kit form or as plans

The Farman David was a light sporting biplane introduced to the aviation world via the 1919 Paris Salon

The ArrowCopter is a two-seat high performance gyrocopter produced in Austria to United Kingdom construction standard Section T CAP 643 which permits its construction up to a MTOW of 600 kg (1,322 lb), and in the ultralight class in Germany and other countries, up to a max of 450 kg

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 Skylark is one of the new light aircraft designed to meet US LSA requirements. It was designed in Canada and is manufactured in the Czech Republic.

The Dyn Aero MCR Ute Pickup was designed and put into production in France as a two-seat cabin monoplane, being a development of a four-seat variant with the rear seats removed to permit the carriage of more cargo.

Dynali was formed in the early 1980s, the company being formed by Jacques Tonet in Belgium as Dynali, later becoming Dynali Helicopters.

The Dornier Libelle was a light three-seat sporting flying boat built in the 1920s by Dornier Metallbanten at Freidrichshafen and was delivered in some numbers.

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.

Development Technology Aero (DTA) later known as Delta Trikes Aviation) was founded in France in 1990 by Jean-Michel Dizier to produce a range of trikes and machines were developed to meet aerial work requirements, including agriculture, territorial tracking and pipeline work.

The Davis DA-2 is a two-seat side-by-side low-wing sporting monoplane fitted with an all-moving VEE-tail having an included angle of 100 degrees

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 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.