Manna Aviation is an Australian

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based in

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, founded by Phil Hale. The company specializes in provision of parts and plans for amateur construction. The company focuses on plans for wooden aircraft, with the aim of preserving older aircraft designs.

History

Manna Aviation was established in February 2012, initially as service intended to match available

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space with aircraft owners seeking hangars. That business proved to be not profitable and the company expanded into

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s, specifically for the

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market, including Australia. The first product sold was an oxy-acetylene welding torch intended for use in welding

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tubing. This led to the founding of a new company, Cobra Torches Australia. The company next became a dealer for Flybox Avionics of

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in Australia and

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, selling electronic flight instrument systems,

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s, instruments and an

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system. These lines were spun off to a new company, Cobra Aviation, leaving Manna Aviation to concentrate on the provision of aircraft plans and kits. Manna Aviation acquired the rights to many of

Falconar Avia Falconar Avia was a Canadian aircraft manufacturer based in Edmonton, Alberta. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of kits and plans for amateur construction.Purdy, Don: ''AeroCrafter - Homebuilt Aircraft Sourcebook'', page 1 ...

's designs after that company's founder, Chris Falconar died on 9 September 2018 and that company was wound-up on 30 June 2019. Manna Aviation acquired the rights to the

Falconar F9A The Falconar F9A and F10A are a family of Canadian amateur-built aircraft, that were designed by Chris Falconar and produced by Falconar Avia. The F9A design was introduced in 1965 and both the F9A and F10A were supplied as kits or as plans fo ...

, Falconar F10A,

Falconar F11 Sporty The Falconar F11 Sporty is a Canadian amateur-built aircraft, that was designed by Chris Falconar and produced by Falconar Avia. Falconar supplied it as a kit or as plans for amateur construction. Today both the F11A and E models are availabl ...

Falconar F12A Cruiser The Falconar F12A Cruiser is a Canadian amateur-built aircraft, designed by Chris Falconar and originally produced as a kit by Falconar Avia. The aircraft is now supplied as plans for amateur construction by Manna Aviation.Vandermeullen, Richa ...

, Falconar Minihawk,

Falconar SAL Mustang The Falconar SAL Mustang, also called the 2/3 Mustang and the SAL P-51D Mustang is a Canadian amateur-built aircraft, originally produced by Falconar Avia and introduced in 1969. The aircraft is a scale replica of the North American P-51 Musta ...

Falconar AMF-14H Maranda The Falconar AMF-14H Maranda is a Canadian amateur-built aircraft, designed and originally produced by Falconar Avia for the Canadian basic ultralight class and US light-sport aircraft category. The aircraft is supplied as a kit or as plans for ...

and the

Falconar AMF-S14 Super Maranda __NOTOC__ The Falconar AMF-S14 Maranda is a two-seat, light aircraft first flown in Canada in 1961 and originally marketed for amateur construction by Falconar Avia. Since the winding up of business by Falconar Avia in 2019, the plans are now s ...

aircraft plans. The company intends to offers kits for the designs in time, as well as builder-assistance programs. The company also offers plans for

Marcel Jurca Marcel Jurca, (1921 – 19 October 2001) was a prolific designer of homebuilt aircraft in France. He is most well known for his Tempête and Sirocco designs. Early life Born in Romania, Jurca was impressed by the PZL fighters which often flew over ...

Jurca Sirocco The Jurca MJ-5 Sirocco (named for the Sirocco wind) is a two-seat sport aircraft designed in France in the early 1960s and marketed for homebuilding. It is one of many wooden homebuilt designs from Romanian born designer Marcel Jurca. Jurca, ...

and

Druine Turbi __NOTOC__ The Druine D.5 Turbi was a light aircraft designed in France in the 1950s for home building. It was a low-wing cantilever monoplane with fixed tailskid undercarriage. The pilot and a single passenger sat in tandem, open cockpits. Essenti ...

designs.

Aircraft

Summary of Manna Aviation aircraft: *

* Falconar F10A *

* Falconar Minihawk *

References

External links

* {{Falconar Avia aircraft Aircraft manufacturers of Australia Homebuilt aircraft Manufacturing companies established in 2012 2012 establishments in Australia