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A huge wooden flying-boat prototype that made one brief flight in 1947.
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A huge wooden flying-boat prototype that made one brief flight in 1947.
A four-engine airliner whose history also includes long-range maritime military service.
An amphibious turboprop designed around scooping water and delivering it to fires.
The JetRanger and LongRanger family: a familiar turbine-helicopter shape with distinct cabin lengths.
Mooney's four-seat piston family, developed through many touring-aircraft variants.
A radial-engined utility aircraft closely associated with bush flying and float operations.
A four-seat kit-built touring aircraft that expanded the RV family beyond two-seat designs.
The fixed-gear, six-cylinder touring branch of Piper's PA-28 family.
A small open gyroplane with an unpowered rotor and pusher propulsion.
An open-cockpit biplane trainer that found a second life in civilian flying.
Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
A Hungarian two-seat light helicopter powered by a Rotax 915 iS.
A high-wing twin turboprop developed for regional freight and passenger transport.
A military transport developed from the DC-3, used for cargo, troops, parachuting and glider towing.
A box-shaped utility twin whose cabin and rear access are central to its design.
A four-engine jetliner that helped establish the shape of long-distance jet travel.
A very large single-engine biplane designed for practical work from modest airfields.
Lockheed's tandem-seat Shooting Star jet trainer.
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