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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 low-wing piston family that spans simple trainers, touring aircraft and retractable-gear Arrows.
A Swedish reconnaissance and dive-bombing aircraft from the early 1940s.
A carrier-capable multirole fighter, larger than the earlier Hornet from which it developed.
A four-seat, pressurised kit aircraft with a composite airframe and retractable landing gear.
A compact Czech touring aircraft with side-by-side seats and a streamlined low-wing airframe.
The Stationair utility family, combining a high wing with fixed landing gear.
An enclosed, two-seat autogyro with side-by-side seating and a pusher propeller.
A composite amphibian that carries Dornier's centreline engine arrangement into the turboprop era.
An open-cockpit biplane trainer that found a second life in civilian flying.
The JetRanger and LongRanger family: a familiar turbine-helicopter shape with distinct cabin lengths.
A compact racing aeroplane built around a large radial engine and very short fuselage.
A four-abreast regional-jet family spanning the E170, E175, E190 and E195.
A composite, low-wing touring single with fixed gear and a turbocharged engine.
Lockheed's wide-body TriStar, with three RB211 engines and a distinctive tail intake.
A lightweight short-field aircraft with a specialised wing and tall, shock-absorbing landing gear.
A twin-turboprop utility aircraft developed by Reims Aviation with Cessna.
A super-midsize business jet with a swept wing, rear-mounted engines and an integrated glass cockpit.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
A radial-engine trainer that also served in combat and civilian warbird roles.
A regional turboprop family whose short early versions and larger Q400 have different proportions and systems.
A pressurised cabin-class piston twin, from the tip-tanked 414 to the longer-wing 414A and its many aftermarket conversions.
A small three-engine demonstrator created to explore technologies for a future supersonic airliner.
A high-wing utility turboprop designed for short-field passenger and cargo work.
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