Garland Aerospace Pty Ltd was an Australian

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based in

Camden, New South Wales Camden is a historic town and suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, located 65 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district. Camden was the administrative centre for the local government area of Camden Council until July/August ...

and founded by Kenneth Sydney Garland. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of ultralight aircraft in the form of kits for amateur construction and ready-to-fly aircraft.Tacke, Willi; Marino Boric; et al: ''World Directory of Light Aviation 2015-16'', page 109. Flying Pages Europe SARL, 2015. The company was founded in about 2013 and seems to have gone out of business in 2016.

History

Kenneth Garland holds the rights to the

Sadler Vampire The Sadler SV-1 Vampire is a single-seat ultralight sport aircraft developed in the United States in the early 1980s.''Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1985–86'', p.677 It is uncharacteristic of ultralight designs in both its layout and its co ...

SV-2 design and had also acquired many of the drawings, tooling and parts for the design through his company Aero.V.Australia. Aero.V.Australia was an aircraft maintenance and repair company, that seems to have been formed in 2006 and gone out of business in 2013. Garland Aerospace was formed to develop the 1980s vintage

design into the

Garland Vampire The Garland Vampire is an Australian amateur-built aircraft that is derived from the Sadler Vampire and was produced by Garland Aerospace of Camden, New South Wales. When it was available the aircraft was supplied as a kit for amateur const ...

. Three versions were produced, the GA-1 for the US

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category, the GA-2 an updated version for the homebuilt market and the GA-3 with more power and a higher gross weight. Garland Aerospace was also engaged in developing a whole range of new aircraft designs. These included the GA-5 Warlang, a

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version of the Vampire; the GA-6 Torana, a two seat design based on the Goair Trainer; the GA-7 Winjeel, a two-seat aircraft with

conventional landing gear Conventional landing gear, or tailwheel-type landing gear, is an aircraft undercarriage consisting of two main wheels forward of the center of gravity and a small wheel or skid to support the tail.Crane, Dale: ''Dictionary of Aeronautical Term ...

; the GA-8 Woomera, a new Vampire-based design for the US ultralight category, to be powered by a Compact Radial Engines MZ202 two stroke engine and the GA-9 Starship, a new design based on the Vampire with a

Rotax 914 The Rotax 914 is a turbo-charged, four-stroke, four-cylinder, horizontally opposed aircraft engine with air-cooled cylinders and water-cooled cylinder heads. It is designed and built by the Austrian company BRP-Powertrain, owned by Bombardier ...

turbocharged powerplant and retractable landing gear. There is no evidence that any of these aircraft were ever taken beyond the concept stage. The company also provided aircraft construction technique classes to prospective aircraft builders in subjects including

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, aircraft fabric covering,

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construction and aircraft painting and finishing. The company also sold

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and piston aircraft engines.

Aircraft

Summary of aircraft built by Garland: *

References

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External links

Company website archives
on

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Defunct aircraft manufacturers of Australia Ultralight aircraft Homebuilt aircraft Australian companies established in 2013