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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 huge wooden flying-boat prototype that made one brief flight in 1947.
A Swedish reconnaissance and dive-bombing aircraft from the early 1940s.
The turboprop-powered member of Beechcraft’s tandem-seat Mentor training family.
The Mitchell medium bomber, named for aviation advocate Billy Mitchell.
A light amphibian with a hull, retractable wheels and a pusher propeller.
An experimental French helicopter with two coaxial, counter-rotating rotors.
A radial-engined light transport whose long career covered passengers, freight and military training.
Diamond's four-seat light twin, developed with diesel-powered versions.
A composite, low-wing touring single with fixed gear and a turbocharged engine.
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Cirrus's first type-certified aircraft, a composite piston single.
A corrugated-metal transport best known in its three-engine form.
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A carbon-fibre aerobatic monoplane family with a dedicated air-racing branch.
A five-seat composite single whose development led to the diesel DA50 RG.
The Huey: a turbine-powered utility helicopter with a broad cabin and an unmistakable two-bladed rotor.
A personal jet with one engine above the rear fuselage and a distinctive V-tail.
A two-seat touring motorglider with interchangeable wing tips.
A compact twin-engine transport helicopter with retractable gear and a long development history.
A two-seat composite kit aircraft developed from the Lancair 320.
A pressurised regional airliner with a high wing and two Rolls-Royce Dart turboprops.
A streamlined light twin helicopter, with the later Bell 230 in the same family.
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