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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 twin-radial military transport with a rear ramp and short-field design priorities.
The CJ4 belongs to Cessna's light-jet line, with two rear-mounted engines and a T-tail.
A tandem-seat jet trainer that also found a second life in civilian display and racing.
Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
A small twin-engine amphibian that moved from business transport into military and utility service.
A British jet trainer with tandem seating and a long military training career.
A very light twin jet developed from the Eclipse 500.
Embraer's regional-jet family, from the ERJ 135 to the longer ERJ 145.
A low-wing piston twin that carries the Beechcraft touring-aircraft lineage into two-engine flying.
A First World War trainer that became a familiar sight in the barnstorming era.
A self-launching sailplane family with its engine inside the fuselage and a folding nose propeller.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
A twin-engine utility helicopter with roots in the BK 117 and EC145 families.
A two-seat touring motorglider with interchangeable wing tips.
A composite, low-wing touring single with fixed gear and a turbocharged engine.
A corrugated-metal, three-engine transport from the formative years of airline travel.
The four-engine wide-body whose raised flight deck created one of aviation's most recognisable profiles.
The retractable member of Beechcraft’s Musketeer family: a roomy, four-cylinder travelling aircraft with an unusually large baggage door.
A side-by-side touring motorglider used for both powered flying and soaring.
An open-cockpit biplane trainer that found a second life in civilian flying.
A jet-powered military transport designed for both strategic loads and tactical airfield access.
A streamlined light twin helicopter, with the later Bell 230 in the same family.
A pressurised single turboprop with a large cargo door and a broad range of working roles.
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