Gippsland Aeronautics are an Australian aircraft manufacturer based at Latrobe Valley Airport in Morwell, Victoria. The company builds utilitarian single-engined aircraft. These include the GA8 Airvan and the GA200 Fatman.
Gippsland Aeronautics, founded by Peter Furlong and George Morgan, has had a long-established reputation in the aeronautical industry in Australia. The company started operations at the Latrobe Regional Airport in Morwell in th...
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Gippsland Aeronautics are an Australian aircraft manufacturer based at Latrobe Valley Airport in Morwell, Victoria. The company builds utilitarian single-engined aircraft. These include the GA8 Airvan and the GA200 Fatman.
Gippsland Aeronautics, founded by Peter Furlong and George Morgan, has had a long-established reputation in the aeronautical industry in Australia. The company started operations at the Latrobe Regional Airport in Morwell in the 1970s as an aircraft maintenance and modification business working for large organisations such as the National Safety Council of Australia and Esso Australia, as well as local commercial operators.
During the late 1960s, early 1970s, Peter Furlong and John Brown were pilots, builders, fabricators and maintenance personnel for, amongst others, the Latrobe Valley Aircraft Club, and the Ultra Light Club of Australia (LV Division).
The late John "Brownie" Brown was a world recognised aviator and builder of timber aircraft. Brownie was involved...
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