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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 1920s flying boat with two engines arranged in tandem above the wing.
An unpowered military cargo glider designed to deliver troops and equipment behind a tow aircraft.
The turboprop-powered member of Beechcraft’s tandem-seat Mentor training family.
A close-air-support aircraft with a straight wing, twin tail and two widely separated jet engines.
A personal jet with one engine above the rear fuselage and a distinctive V-tail.
A long-range strategic bomber with a swept wing and eight jet engines in paired pods.
A small twin-engine amphibian that moved from business transport into military and utility service.
The retractable member of Beechcraft’s Musketeer family: a roomy, four-cylinder travelling aircraft with an unusually large baggage door.
The H130 utility helicopter, descended from the AS350 and fitted with a Fenestron.
A tandem-seat development of Scheibe’s touring motorglider family.
A tandem-seat light aircraft with a streamlined low-wing layout.
A small three-engine demonstrator created to explore technologies for a future supersonic airliner.
A swept-wing business jet designed around high subsonic cruise speed.
A large twin-radial transport that carried heavy loads through wartime and post-war freight service.
A high-wing utility turboprop designed for short-field passenger and cargo work.
An open-cockpit biplane trainer that found a second life in civilian flying.
The JetRanger and LongRanger family: a familiar turbine-helicopter shape with distinct cabin lengths.
A tandem two-seat sailplane family used for training and cross-country soaring.
A carrier-capable multirole fighter, larger than the earlier Hornet from which it developed.
The tip-tanked turbofan Learjets, combining the classic compact airframe with longer range and careers in business, military and medical flying.
A First World War trainer that became a familiar sight in the barnstorming era.
A regional jet family with four small engines, a high wing and a large split tail airbrake.
A low-wing agricultural Cessna with a cockpit and hopper arranged around the job.
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