The Rubber Bandit was an experimental aircraft, designed and built in the 1990s by George Heaven, of Van Nuys, California, which was powered by a rubber-band motor.

George Heaven was a pilot and aeronautical engineer who wanted to make the first flight in a rubber powered airplane.

[1] Development work included the building and testing of a 1⁄25th scale free flight model, which had a 27 in (69 cm) wingspan.

[4] The motor was made of 0.25 in (0.64 cm)-wide rubber, folded into 800 strands, and measured 20 ft (6.1 m) long and would be wound up to 800 revolutions.

[4] A 2011 article published on the Sustainable Skies website reported that testing of the Rubber Bandit had continued through to 2003, with some short hops but no flights being made.