Ryan NYP “Spirit of St. Louis” ↗
The purpose-built Ryan monoplane used by Charles Lindbergh for his 1927 solo Atlantic crossing.
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The purpose-built Ryan monoplane used by Charles Lindbergh for his 1927 solo Atlantic crossing.
A two-seat touring motorglider with interchangeable wing tips.
A carrier-capable multirole fighter, larger than the earlier Hornet from which it developed.
A large twin-radial transport that carried heavy loads through wartime and post-war freight service.
A corrugated-metal, three-engine transport from the formative years of airline travel.
A long-running touring single, familiar in both V-tail and conventional-tail forms.
A fixed-wing observation aircraft with a helicopter-like view from its glazed nose.
A 1920s flying boat with two engines arranged in tandem above the wing.
A purpose-built agricultural aircraft that also became a single-engine air tanker.
The JetRanger and LongRanger family: a familiar turbine-helicopter shape with distinct cabin lengths.
A six-seat composite single turboprop with a pressurised cabin and retractable gear.
A two-seat composite kit aircraft developed from the Lancair 320.
A tandem two-seat sailplane designed for instruction and broader soaring use.
The turboprop-powered member of Beechcraft’s tandem-seat Mentor training family.
A light tandem-seat taildragger built around the familiar braced high-wing layout.
A British jet trainer with tandem seating and a long military training career.
The retractable member of Beechcraft’s Musketeer family: a roomy, four-cylinder travelling aircraft with an unusually large baggage door.
A streamlined twin-engine helicopter with a Fenestron tail rotor and retractable landing gear.
A small three-engine demonstrator created to explore technologies for a future supersonic airliner.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
A long-range trijet developed from the DC-10 with a stretched fuselage and revised wing and cockpit.
Cirrus's first type-certified aircraft, a composite piston single.
A rear-engined trijet built to bring jet service to shorter routes and smaller airports.
A flyable interpretation of Testors’ 1980s speculative stealth-fighter design.
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