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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 vast inter-war flying boat with twelve engines arranged in six paired installations.
A long-range strategic bomber with a swept wing and eight jet engines in paired pods.
The purpose-built Ryan monoplane used by Charles Lindbergh for his 1927 solo Atlantic crossing.
A 1920s transport family that developed from a single-engine airliner into a trimotor.
A late member of the Nieuport V-strut scout family, remembered both as a First World War fighter and as an advanced trainer.
A French two-seat aerobatic trainer with side-by-side seating and a distinctive curved wing outline.
A retractable-gear touring single with an all-metal airframe and a long-lived enthusiast following.
Cirrus's first type-certified aircraft, a composite piston single.
A pressurised regional airliner with a high wing and two Rolls-Royce Dart turboprops.
A side-by-side touring motorglider used for both powered flying and soaring.
A tandem-seat homebuilt jet with composite construction and retractable landing gear.
A four-seat touring family whose Commander 114 added a larger engine and further refinements.
A twin-turboprop regional airliner developed through Swedish and American industrial cooperation.
A British jet trainer with tandem seating and a long military training career.
A two-seat Tecnam high-wing aircraft combining composite and metal construction.
A pressurised twin turboprop with a canard, composite airframe and rear-facing propellers.
A streamlined light twin helicopter, with the later Bell 230 in the same family.
A pioneering light helicopter whose bubble cabin and exposed structure became widely recognisable.
A five-seat composite single whose development led to the diesel DA50 RG.
A tailwheel utility single built around a high wing and a substantial working cabin.
A modern two-seat piston helicopter designed around the training role.
A single-seat competition sailplane offered in Standard and 18-metre configurations.
A push-pull twin with one engine at each end of the central fuselage.
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