Avid Catalina
Avid Aircraft was an American company that built and sold homebuilt kit airplanes. The company was started in 1983 by Dean Wilson, and was initially based in Idaho, moving...
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Mignet HM.1000 Balerit- 1992
Mignet Aviation was founded in 1984. The chief designer was Pierre Mignet, eldest son of Henri, the inventor of the Flying Flea. The manager and head of the company...
Mignet HM.1100 Cordouan
Chief designer Pierre Mignet, eldest son of Henri, the inventor of the Flying Flea, founded Mignet Aviation in 1982. The culmination of the Flying Flea design came in 1996...
Mignet HM.14
French radio engineer Henri Mignet set out in the early 1930s to design a plane that was not only easy and safe to fly, but one that could be...
Mignet HM.160 Bebe Pou (Baby Flea)
Weight- and space-saving was the goal of Henri Mignet when designing the HM.16, itself a derivative of the earlier HM.14. At only 10 feet, 10 inches long, its short...
Mignet HM.290E
Henri Mignet had been approached by the French Resistance in 1944 with a set of criteria for a small military plane. He was only able to complete a prototype,...
Mignet HM.293
Colonel Albert Eon, head of the French resistance in Brittany, approached Henri Mignet in 1944 with a set of criteria for a small military plane. Devastated by his wife’s...
Mignet HM.360
The Flying Flea series of airplanes was designed by Henri Mignet, a French designer/builder, in 1934 and was one of the first home-built airplanes. In retrospect, his earlier designs...
Mignet HM.380 Flying Flea- 1998
The Flying Flea was designed by Henri Mignet, a French designer/builder, in 1934, and was one of the first home-built airplanes. A number of the early airplanes crashed because...
Mignet HM.8 Avionette Replica- 1931
In 1928, Henri Mignet wrote a series of articles in the French aviation magazine Les Ailes (“Wings” in English) about the development of his new plane, the HM.8 Avionette....