If it's a stick you want, then you better look for ultralights (also called "microlights") but in a certain formal vocabulary these cannot be called "aircraft". Real aircraft with a real stick are not many, a Yak52 might fit the bill but that design is quite old too, and not cheap at all to fly.
Craft like the Ikaros C42 or the FK9 might better meet your requirement.
Then again, of what region do you want "the North East"? Europe, Spain, Finland, Balkans?