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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 light two-seat helicopter with a side-by-side cabin and a semi-rigid main rotor.
A pioneering light helicopter whose bubble cabin and exposed structure became widely recognisable.
Ted Smith's piston twin, later produced by Piper as the Aerostar.
A long-range strategic bomber with a swept wing and eight jet engines in paired pods.
A long-range twin designed around a new wide-body airframe and extensive composite construction.
A composite two-seat light sport aircraft with an unobstructed cantilever high wing.
A modern open-cockpit light aircraft that revives the corrugated-metal style of the 1929 A50.
A large twin-radial transport that carried heavy loads through wartime and post-war freight service.
A single-engine turboprop workhorse for passenger services, freight and remote-area transport.
A six-engine heavy transport created for exceptionally large external and internal loads.
A modern two-seat piston helicopter designed around the training role.
A single-seat aerobatic monoplane that also became a familiar air-racing aircraft.
The turboprop-powered member of Beechcraft’s tandem-seat Mentor training family.
A military transport developed from the DC-3, used for cargo, troops, parachuting and glider towing.
An unpowered military cargo glider designed to deliver troops and equipment behind a tow aircraft.
A two-seat amphibian with a flying-boat hull and a pusher engine above the cabin.
A side-by-side two-seat sailplane with a retractable powerplant for self-launching.
An advanced trainer known around the world as the Texan, Harvard and SNJ.
A side-by-side touring motorglider used for both powered flying and soaring.
A light turbine helicopter combining an Alouette II airframe with more powerful Alouette III components.
A tailwheel utility single built around a high wing and a substantial working cabin.
A twin-turboprop family whose smaller conventional-tail and larger T-tail branches have distinct identities.
A two-seat composite trainer with a low wing and a large canopy.
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