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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 four-seat touring family whose Commander 114 added a larger engine and further refinements.
A turbine-powered utility helicopter with a broad cabin and a long international service history.
A compact aerobatic biplane family with both single-seat and tandem-seat branches.
A composite amphibian that carries Dornier's centreline engine arrangement into the turboprop era.
An amphibious turboprop designed around scooping water and delivering it to fires.
A military transport developed from the DC-3, used for cargo, troops, parachuting and glider towing.
A twin-engine business jet designed to retain some of the utility flexibility associated with the PC-12.
A jet-powered military transport designed for both strategic loads and tactical airfield access.
A purpose-built agricultural aircraft that also became a single-engine air tanker.
A pressurised twin turboprop with a canard, composite airframe and rear-facing propellers.
A two-seat composite light-aircraft family with a high wing and a compact enclosed cabin.
Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
A corrugated-metal, three-engine transport from the formative years of airline travel.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
An electric-powered educational glider concept inspired by the human-powered MIT Daedalus 88.
A pressurised single-engine turboprop family that combines a compact cabin with retractable gear.
A self-launching sailplane family with its engine inside the fuselage and a folding nose propeller.
An experimental twin-boom racing aircraft commissioned by Bob Pond and designed by Burt Rutan.
A side-by-side military trainer with a low wing and fixed tricycle landing gear.
A very light twin jet developed from the Eclipse 500.
A rear-engined trijet built to bring jet service to shorter routes and smaller airports.
A four-seat piston helicopter with a two-blade main rotor and conventional tail rotor.
A midsize business jet developed by Bombardier’s Learjet division.
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