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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 light turbine helicopter whose land-based Scout and naval Wasp branches served different jobs.
A wooden touring-aircraft family recognisable by the upward-angled outer wing panels.
A compact rear-engined jet designed for short-haul regional airline work.
A pioneering all-metal transport with an enclosed passenger cabin and corrugated skin.
A light tandem-seat taildragger built around the familiar braced high-wing layout.
A four-bladed utility helicopter developed from the LongRanger lineage.
An advanced trainer known around the world as the Texan, Harvard and SNJ.
A single-seat helicopter originally developed as a homebuilt kit.
A long-range fighter whose different engine and canopy developments produced several distinct forms.
A purpose-built aerobatic monoplane family developed by pilot and designer Walter Extra.
A carbon-fibre aerobatic monoplane family with a dedicated air-racing branch.
A tandem-seat jet trainer that also found a second life in civilian display and racing.
The JetRanger and LongRanger family: a familiar turbine-helicopter shape with distinct cabin lengths.
A corrugated-metal, three-engine transport from the formative years of airline travel.
The retractable member of Beechcraft’s Musketeer family: a roomy, four-cylinder travelling aircraft with an unusually large baggage door.
A four-engine jetliner that helped establish the shape of long-distance jet travel.
A long-range strategic bomber with a swept wing and eight jet engines in paired pods.
Airbus's first production aircraft, built around a twin-engine wide-body layout.
A very light twin jet developed from the Eclipse 500.
A pressurised cabin-class piston twin, from the tip-tanked 414 to the longer-wing 414A and its many aftermarket conversions.
A twin-radial airliner that helped make practical passenger transport a regular business.
A 1920s flying boat with two engines arranged in tandem above the wing.
Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
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