VH-RQQ Eagle X-TS 150 (MSN 017) owned by Geoffrey Danes at the Sport Aircraft Builders Club (SABC) Annual Fly-In, Serpentine Airfield – 25 October 2020. Built in 1998, this aircraft was originally operated by the Royal Queensland Aero Club, one of two Eagle 150s at Serpentine today – the other was VH-VLN. The Eagle X-TS was conceived by Western Australian inventors Neil Graham and his father Deryck Graham. Graham Swannell and John Roncz were then engaged to design the aircraft. The single-seat prototype Eagle X-P1 was a taildragger based on the Rutan Quickie and first flown in 1984. The Eagle X-TS (Two Seat) had tricycle gear and first flew in 1988, and this was later produced and marketed as the Eagle 150. Eagle Aircraft entered liquidation in 1989, and development slowed, so the aircraft was not certified until 1993. Eagle Aircraft was then purchased by a Malaysian company and production was moved from Fremantle to Malaysia in 1999, where the type was produced by Composites Technology Research Malaysia (CTRM). Photo © David Eyre.