Kits were available to allow amateur construction of the Buccaneer high-wing amphibian in single- and two-seat versions, Sabre high-wing pusher-engined monoplane in single- and two-seat versions, and Zephyr two-seat high-wing monoplane LSA.
1995: 910 Airport Rd, Merritt Island, FL 32952, USA.
USA
Produced a series of four-seat high-wing lightplanes of mainly carbonfibre construction, with fixed or retractable undercarriages and piston engines ranging from 160 hp to 250 hp, plus the K-325 six-seat or utility variant with 325 hp engine.
USA
Founded in 1926 to manufacture a three-seat biplane named the Kentucky Cardinal. The two aircraft completed were of welded steel tube construction and powered by Curtiss OX-5 engines. Company went into liquidation in 1927 following death of the principal.
Lithuania
V. Kensgaila designed nine top-class self-made aircrafts in the skies rose by more than a dozen of its smaller planes constructed.
First flew in 1989 the VK-8 Ausra two-seat agricultural aircraft.
Charlie Kenny of Clydevale near Balclutha, New Zealand, a Jodel enthusiast built a Jodel D 9 ZK-AKR.
Kenny believed he could build a better Jodel so he designed and built his D 150X Governor ZK-CCD (c/n AACA 360/2), first flying on 2 July 2015.
Founded early in First World War by Chessborough J. H. Mackenzie-Kennedy, with offices in South Kensington, London, following establishment of the Kennedy Aeronautic Company in Russia in 1909. In 1911 the founder met Igor Sikorsky and shared enthusiasm for large aircraft. Was associated in the English company with T. W. K. Clarke, well known in British aeronautics. With War Office permission, construction started on the Kennedy Giant by the Gramophone Company Ltd. Late in 1916 components were sent to Northolt Aerodrome for erection in the open. In 1917 attempts to fly the underpowered machine resulted in a “hop”. Building of a bomber was started at Newcastle- on-Tyne, but financial failure came in 1920.
1995-7: 11852 Western Ave, Stanton, CA 90680, USA.
Ken Brock died in an aircraft accident on 19 October 2001.
Ul, gyrocopter, and para-glider builder
Has produced since 1987 plans and kits to build Tukan single-seat or 1+1 -seat microlight with Rogallo wing and trike.
1995: 8710 W. Carefree Hwy, Peoria, AZ 85382, USA.
France
Avions Kellner-Bechereau was founded at Billancourt in 1931. The company was founded in 1931 by Louis Béchereau together with the French automobile carriage-builder Georges Kellner. The factory, located at Boulogne-Billancourt, began building light monoplanes.
Kellner had built car bodies; also SPAD fighters under contract from 1916. Bechereau was experienced in aircraft design (Deperdussin and SPAD types) and had patented new kinds of wooden construction, using molds. In 1936–37 Avions Kellner-Béchereau built a short series of small monoplanes exploiting one of Louis Béchereau’s patents, a full span lateral division of the wing into two sections forming a “double wing”. The wing was first tested on the single-seat Kellner-Béchereau E.1 on 1936, which was followed by two larger and more powerful two-seaters, the Kellner-Béchereau EC.4 and ED.5. Both of these were designed to meet the French Air Ministry’s requirement for a pre-military trainer aircraft to be used by the clubs set up in the “Aviation Populaire” programme.
During the 1930s the company made 60 fuselages for recently-ordered SPAD 510 fighter biplanes, using Bechereau system. Built monoplane with Delage inverted engine for Coupe Deutsch de la Meurthe.
In 1936 built a single-seat lightplane using Bechereau-patented “double wing” (divided laterally, with rear parts hinged differentially to act as slotted flaps or ailerons), and in 1937 two side-by-side-seater developments were built, one of metal and one of wood. With low-powered Train engine, aircraft of this type (E-1 single-seater) established class records. The Kellner-Béchereau designs, however, were not ordered for the Aviation Populaire programme, the Air Ministry opting in favour of the Caudron C.270 and the Salmson Cri-Cri which were both bought in large numbers. Instead, Kellner-Béchereau, along with other manufacturers, built the Cri-Cri under licence.
In 1939 Georges Paulin, who in 1934 had designed the Peugeot 601 Éclipse convertible automobile, joined the aerodynamical department of the Kellner-Béchereau factory. A member of the French Resistance, he was arrested in 1941 and executed the following year.
On the eve of the Second World War, Louis Béchereau conceived a monoplane, the Kellner-Béchereau E.60, also known as K.B.E 60, an embarked monoplane for the aircraft carriers of the French Navy, but its development was frustrated by events.
The Kellner-Béchereau factory was destroyed by bombing in 1942 and the Avions Kellner-Béchereau company was subsequently merged with Morane-Saulnier. Louis Béchereau was given a post as a director at Morane-Saulnier until his retirement in 1950.
1995: Rt.4, Box 194, Versailles, KY 40383, USA.
Markets plans to build Kelly-D and Hatz CB-1 tandem two-seat biplanes, the latter originally designed by John Hatz and first flown 1968.
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