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The Escapade Kid is a single-engine, single-seat, high-wing monoplane, developed and built in the United Kingdom in the 2000s.
The Legrand-Simon LS.60 is a single-engine, high-wing monoplane seating two side-by-side. It was built in France in the early 1960s in response to a government competition for a club trainer. It won the competition but nevertheless failed to go into production; only the prototype, which still flies, was completed.
The Swiss Piccard Eureka was designed to be an easily transportable single seat three-axis ultralight. Its development was brought to a halt by the Swiss ban on ultralight aircraft in 1984.
The Aviator Shershen' is a Russian two seat biplane, sold in kit form. It first flew in 2005 and several variants have been produced, with a choice of engines.
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The WNF Wn 16 was an Austrian experimental aircraft built near the start of World War II to test the properties of the then-new tricycle undercarriage arrangement.
The Aviad Zigolo MG12 is an Italian kitbuilt introductory motor-glider first flown in 2012. It has a small engine and limited gliding performance but is inexpensive to buy and run and simple to build and fly. Kit production began in 2013 and by the following year twenty had been sold.
The G.A.C. 102 Aristocrat or General 102 Aristocrat is a single-engined cabin monoplane built in the US just before the Great Depression. It proved popular, with over forty built; an early example was taken on an aerial survey of Antarctica. One survives.
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