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Australian Aircraft Kits
Hangar 13 Airport Drive
Taree NSW 2430 Australia

E: aircraftkits@bigpond.com
Phone 61 2 6553 8100

2011

Outback Australia - Ole Hartmann

Designs on Bush Flying (Outback Magazine Feb/March 2011)

Ole Hartmann combines his love of flying and his engineering skills to create versatile working aeroplanes for the Australian bush.

Read more here

2010

bushman Test flying of the Bushman has been completed and a second aircraft is under construction

Doug McIlwraith's Hornet Doug McIlwraith has finished his kit Hornet and is taking it home to Canungra in Queensland

2009

Cerified Hornet in New Ze4aland

Aircraft Kits aircraft in New Zealand

Jock Montgomery has taken the first AAK Hornet to New Zealand. It flies out of Christchurch.

Hornet in New Zealand

Tom Keats' Hornet

Hornet STOL VH-TKG

Tom Keats, from Gleeson Station near Mt Isa, built his Hornet STOL under the builder-assist program and completed its flight testing at Taree. The aircraft now lives at Mt Isa.

This aircraft has flown 600 hours in the 24 months to December 2009. It has multiple uses on the property.

A new improved undercarriage (as shown) was installed in October 2009.

October 2009

Refueling Stinger on the way to WA
Stonger on the way to WA
Cameron Hicks and Ole ferried Hornet STOL "Stinger" from Taree to Keilambeete Station near Emerald Queensland
Stinger Hornet STOL
Stonger

Mark THornton's kit

Wasp #P002

Mark Thornton, Beverley WA, completed his WASP GT from a kit

Barry Smith and his Hornet


Hornet STOL

LAME Barry Smith from Atherton North Queensland built a Hornet STOL using a Lycoming engine.


June 2007

COMPLETED, FOR SALE

Alan Wade's Hornet

Alan Sattler's Hornet

Hornet STOL #S006

This kit was shipped to our agent in Western Australia, Alan Sattler in 2006. He built the Hornet STOL as a demonstrator aircraft for WA. It was completed in November 2006.

This year Alan repainted his Hornet.

Read Alan's blog at http://hornetstol.blogspot.com

Allan Sattler's Hornet
Alan Sattler's Hornet

2008

Come and Get It trophy

Come and Get It Trophy

Alan Sattler has snaffled the RAAus Come and Get It Trophy - it's in WA!

Dec 2008

Collin Webecks Wasp Collin Webecks and his Wasp

Wasp 19-5437

Built by Colin Webeck from a kit in the AAK factory under builder-assist program for use as a recreational aircraft on a property at Wee Jasper in southern NSW.

Dec 2008

Ken Smith and his Hornet Tuffy

Tuffy

Hornet STOL "Tuffy"

Built by Ken Smith from a kit in the AAK factory under builder-assist program for use as a recreational aircraft at Tonimbuk Vic.

December 2008

Jerry Giddings' Wasp

Wasp #P003

Jerry Giddings, Inverell NSW with his completed, and now flying, WASP GT.

May 2008

FOR SALE

Ted Laurie's Hornet AG

Australian Aircraft Kit's First Hornet AG/Utility

VH KNL (Hornet AG/Utility #A001 P), our first Hornet AG/Utility aircraft, is based in the Barrington Tops west of Gloucester in New South Wales.

In the second half of 2008 it was given a new paint job and a new reinforced undercarriage.

December 2008

2007

Aircraft Kits Australia in the news - Read more

Han over at Ceduna
Ceduna

Ferry Trip to Ceduna WA

Ole Hartmann and Gill ferried Hornet STOL 19-4251 to Ceduna where they were met by Rod Higgins and Allan Sadler who received the aircraft and flew it home to Coolgardie. The trip them across the Nullarbor Plain and the Great Australian Bight.

November 2007

Ceduna
Ceduna
Ceduna trip

Old Bar
Old Bar
Old Bar

December article

Recreational Aviation Australia

Aircraft Kits Australia's Wasp is featured in an article in Recreational Aviation Australia December 2007.

"The Wasp turned out to be a well behaved and capable plane, with no 'waspish' behaviour at all!...I can't wait to see what these guys come up with next..." Chris Webber

Hornet home in Coolgardie

Hornet STOL #S003

Hornet STOL #3 (19 4251) has been re-fitted with a Rotax 912S engine. This Australian-made aircraft has been designed to the latest MK1 Hornet STOL configuration with several improvements for flight crew comfort. It was given a new colour scheme in November 2006 and is owned by Rod Higgins, Kalgooorlie Western Australia.

December 2007