PAT-1 Peanut
THE PAT-1 IS THE PROTOTYPE for an all-composite (plastic) canard light-plane designed from the start to be commercially produced. I'm not sure whether it is the first lightplane so designed, but I understand it is the first canard. Aircraft manufacturers on both sides of the Atlantic have been trying since the mid-1950s to produce a powered composite aircraft commercially. (See Peter Garrison's article in the April 1982 issue of Flying magazine regarding techniques and earlier attempts.)
