Piper Comanche ↗
A retractable-gear touring single with an all-metal airframe and a long-lived enthusiast following.
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A retractable-gear touring single with an all-metal airframe and a long-lived enthusiast following.
Grumman’s small twin-engine amphibian: a flying boat with retractable wheels and a life spanning wartime service, private travel and seaplane training.
A shorter wide-body Airbus from the transition to two-pilot, electronic-instrument cockpits.
A heavy transport helicopter whose two large rotors remove the need for a tail rotor.
A DC-10-derived tanker that combined aerial refuelling with passenger and cargo transport.
A single-engine utility helicopter known as the Écureuil, Squirrel and AStar.
A pressurised twin turboprop with a canard, composite airframe and rear-facing propellers.
A pressurised single turboprop with a large cargo door and a broad range of working roles.
The Wilga is the real-aircraft starting point for Mike Patey's DRACO and the simulator's DRACO X.
A push-pull twin with one engine at each end of the central fuselage.
A pioneering light helicopter whose bubble cabin and exposed structure became widely recognisable.
A two-seat composite light-aircraft family with a high wing and a compact enclosed cabin.
A post-war Businessliner with a radial engine, cabin transport ambitions and tailwheel gear.
A military transport developed from the DC-3, used for cargo, troops, parachuting and glider towing.
A side-by-side military trainer with a low wing and fixed tricycle landing gear.
A twin-hull flying boat with its engines mounted together above the wing.
Tecnam's four-seat high-wing single, built with metal and carbon-fibre components.
A long-range twin whose programme emphasised composite construction and more electrically powered systems.
A powered hang-glider wing above an amphibious inflatable boat.
A 1920s flying boat with two engines arranged in tandem above the wing.
A rear-engined trijet built to bring jet service to shorter routes and smaller airports.
A four-engine airliner whose history also includes long-range maritime military service.
A small open gyroplane with an unpowered rotor and pusher propulsion.
A two-seat amphibian with a flying-boat hull and a pusher engine above the cabin.
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