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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.
Ted Smith's piston twin, later produced by Piper as the Aerostar.
A twin-radial military transport with a rear ramp and short-field design priorities.
Two related Dutch regional jets developed from the F28 lineage.
A large twin-radial transport that carried heavy loads through wartime and post-war freight service.
A late-1930s cabin aircraft with metal construction and retractable landing gear.
Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
A turbine-powered utility helicopter with a broad cabin and a long international service history.
A pressurised twin turboprop with a canard, composite airframe and rear-facing propellers.
A Swedish reconnaissance and dive-bombing aircraft from the early 1940s.
A five-seat turbine helicopter developed from Robinson's smaller piston-helicopter line.
A British jet trainer with tandem seating and a long military training career.
A tandem-seat development of Scheibe’s touring motorglider family.
A large long-haul twin that introduced Boeing's first commercial fly-by-wire airliner flight controls.
A composite touring single with a whole-aircraft parachute and several generations of avionics.
A two-seat composite kit aircraft developed from the Lancair 320.
A radial-engined light transport whose long career covered passengers, freight and military training.
A two-seat Tecnam high-wing aircraft combining composite and metal construction.
A four-seat piston helicopter with a two-blade main rotor and conventional tail rotor.
The Stationair utility family, combining a high wing with fixed landing gear.
A streamlined twin-engine helicopter with a Fenestron tail rotor and retractable landing gear.
A purpose-built aerobatic monoplane family developed by pilot and designer Walter Extra.
A pressurised cabin-class piston twin, from the tip-tanked 414 to the longer-wing 414A and its many aftermarket conversions.
A small open gyroplane with an unpowered rotor and pusher propulsion.
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