Douglas DC-6 ↗
A pressurised four-engine piston transport from the last major generation before the jet airliner.
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A pressurised four-engine piston transport from the last major generation before the jet airliner.
Grumman’s small twin-engine amphibian: a flying boat with retractable wheels and a life spanning wartime service, private travel and seaplane training.
A DC-10-derived tanker that combined aerial refuelling with passenger and cargo transport.
A retractable-gear touring single with an all-metal airframe and a long-lived enthusiast following.
A carbon-fibre aerobatic monoplane family with a dedicated air-racing branch.
Cirrus's first type-certified aircraft, a composite piston single.
Ted Smith's piston twin, later produced by Piper as the Aerostar.
A heavy-lift helicopter built around an open frame and an external working load.
A four-seat touring family whose Commander 114 added a larger engine and further refinements.
A post-war Czech light twin with a rounded cabin and engines carried on a low wing.
A single-seat helicopter originally developed as a homebuilt kit.
A military transport developed from the DC-3, used for cargo, troops, parachuting and glider towing.
A wide-cabin business-jet family that developed from Canadair's original Challenger programme.
The four-engine Flying Fortress, a major American bomber of the Second World War.
A compact Japanese twin turboprop with a high wing and pressurised cabin.
A tandem-seat canard homebuilt with a pusher engine and distinctive winglets.
A tandem two-seat sailplane family used for training and cross-country soaring.
A four-seat piston helicopter with a two-blade main rotor and conventional tail rotor.
An amphibious turboprop designed around scooping water and delivering it to fires.
A tandem-seat jet trainer that also found a second life in civilian display and racing.
A purpose-built agricultural aircraft that also became a single-engine air tanker.
A single-seat competition sailplane offered in Standard and 18-metre configurations.
An experimental French helicopter with two coaxial, counter-rotating rotors.
A regional turboprop family whose short early versions and larger Q400 have different proportions and systems.
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