Ten designs, one designer, twenty-one years. Each page covers the type's history, its rough specification, who's on the UK register, and a photo gallery owners can add to.
The original — a VW Beetle engine and a self-taught designer’s dream of a “poet’s aeroplane”.
1960 · single-seat prototype
A state-backed refinement, built to prove the Fournier concept and the foundation for the production family.
1962 · prototype
The first production Fournier, built by Alpavia — and the aircraft that made the name familiar.
1963 · production begins
The strengthened aerobatic single-seater, with the German-built RF4D becoming the best-known version.
1965 · ~155 built
The tandem two-seater with folding wings — perhaps the most recognisable Fournier of them all.
1968 · ~200 built
A detour into tricycle-gear touring and training aircraft, away from the classic glider-like formula.
1973 · small series
A short-span aerobatic single-seater that flew beautifully but never reached certification.
1970 · experimental
An all-metal two-seat motorglider, state-funded and built as a single prototype.
1973 · one built
Side-by-side seating and folding wings — an intriguing final wooden Fournier design.
1977 · very small production
The composite generation, later developed and built in Brazil as the Aeromot Ximango.
1981 · composite era
