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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 radial-engined utility aircraft closely associated with bush flying and float operations.
A modern composite twin with a roomy cabin and two wing-mounted piston engines.
A Swedish reconnaissance and dive-bombing aircraft from the early 1940s.
A shorter wide-body Airbus from the transition to two-pilot, electronic-instrument cockpits.
The turboprop-powered member of Beechcraft’s tandem-seat Mentor training family.
SOCATA's touring-aircraft family, including the Tobago and Trinidad.
A four-engine military turboprop designed to combine tactical access with long-distance transport.
Piper's two-seat trainer with fixed tricycle landing gear.
A tandem-seat jet trainer that also found a second life in civilian display and racing.
A tandem-seat canard homebuilt with a pusher engine and distinctive winglets.
A four-engine airliner whose history also includes long-range maritime military service.
A side-by-side touring motorglider used for both powered flying and soaring.
Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
A narrow-body twin developed as a new generation of medium-range airliner.
A long-range fighter whose different engine and canopy developments produced several distinct forms.
The Mitchell medium bomber, named for aviation advocate Billy Mitchell.
A large twin-radial transport that carried heavy loads through wartime and post-war freight service.
The retractable member of Beechcraft’s Musketeer family: a roomy, four-cylinder travelling aircraft with an unusually large baggage door.
An open-cockpit biplane trainer that found a second life in civilian flying.
A four-engine airliner that brought pressurised-cabin travel into scheduled service.
A personal jet with one engine above the rear fuselage and a distinctive V-tail.
A small three-engine demonstrator created to explore technologies for a future supersonic airliner.
A two-seat composite kit aircraft developed from the Lancair 320.
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