Custom Flight Ltd is a Canadian

aircraft manufacturer An aerospace manufacturer is a company or individual involved in the various aspects of designing, building, testing, selling, and maintaining aircraft, aircraft parts, missiles, rockets, or spacecraft. Aerospace is a high technology indust ...

based in

Tiny, Ontario Tiny, also known as Tiny Township, is a township in Simcoe County, south-central Ontario, Canada. The Township of Tiny can be found in the southern Georgian Bay region and is approximately long or . Communities The township comprises the commu ...

that was founded by Morgan Williams. Its address was formerly Perkinsfield, Ontario in the late 1990s. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of

light aircraft A light aircraft is an aircraft that has a maximum gross takeoff weight of or less.Crane, Dale: ''Dictionary of Aeronautical Terms, third edition'', page 308. Aviation Supplies & Academics, 1997. Light aircraft are used as utility aircraft co ...

in the form of kits for amateur construction and ready-to-fly light-sport aircraft.Vandermeullen, Richard: ''2012 Kit Aircraft Buyer's Guide'', Kitplanes, Volume 28, Number 12, December 2011, page 49-50. Belvoir Publications. ISSN 0891-1851Purdy, Don: ''AeroCrafter - Homebuilt Aircraft Sourcebook, Fifth Edition'', page 144. BAI Communications, 15 July 1998. Williams had rebuilt

Piper PA-18 Super Cub The Piper PA-18 Super Cub is a two-seat, single-engine monoplane. Introduced in 1949 by Piper Aircraft, it was developed from the PA-11 Cub Special, and traces its lineage back through the J-3 Cub to the Taylor E-2 Cub of the 1930s. In close ...

s before, but thought that the design could be improved upon and so he created a fresh design that incorporated the best of the Super Cub and corrected its deficiencies. This aircraft was marketed as the

Custom Flight North Star The Custom Flight North Star is a Canadian amateur-built aircraft, designed by Morgan Williams and produced by Custom Flight of Tiny, Ontario. The aircraft is based on the Piper PA-18 Super Cub and is supplied as a kit for amateur construction ...

with at least 24 examples having been flown by 2016. The Custom Flight Lite Star is a smaller, lighter aircraft for the light-sport aircraft market, although as of September 2014, the design does not appear on the

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's list of approved special light-sport aircraft. The company also provides general computer-aided design and

computer-aided manufacturing Computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) also known as computer-aided modeling or computer-aided machining is the use of software to control machine tools in the manufacturing of work pieces. This is not the only definition for CAM, but it is the most ...

services as well as

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Aircraft

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* {{Custom Flight aircraft Aircraft manufacturers of Canada Light-sport aircraft Homebuilt aircraft