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Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
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Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
A box-shaped utility twin whose cabin and rear access are central to its design.
A pioneering all-metal transport with an enclosed passenger cabin and corrugated skin.
The turboprop-powered member of Beechcraft’s tandem-seat Mentor training family.
A push-pull twin with one engine at each end of the central fuselage.
An enclosed, two-seat autogyro with side-by-side seating and a pusher propeller.
A military transport developed from the DC-3, used for cargo, troops, parachuting and glider towing.
A short-haul jet family that evolved through several generations of engines, wings and flight decks.
A radial-engined light transport whose long career covered passengers, freight and military training.
A four-engine jetliner that helped establish the shape of long-distance jet travel.
A small three-engine demonstrator created to explore technologies for a future supersonic airliner.
A six-seat composite single turboprop with a pressurised cabin and retractable gear.
A lightweight pusher family with an enclosed cabin and a high, braced wing.
A two-seat, twin-engine fighter that served naval and land-based air forces in many roles.
The Mitchell medium bomber, named for aviation advocate Billy Mitchell.
An amphibious turboprop designed around scooping water and delivering it to fires.
A purpose-built aerobatic monoplane family developed by pilot and designer Walter Extra.
A compact twin-engine helicopter widely used for medical, police and training work.
A long-range fighter whose different engine and canopy developments produced several distinct forms.
A twin-hull flying boat with its engines mounted together above the wing.
A streamlined twin-engine helicopter with a Fenestron tail rotor and retractable landing gear.
A four-engine airliner that brought pressurised-cabin travel into scheduled service.
A flyable interpretation of Testors’ 1980s speculative stealth-fighter design.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
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