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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 fixed-gear twin turboprop with a long history in regional and remote-area transport.
A four-engine airliner that brought pressurised-cabin travel into scheduled service.
A Swedish reconnaissance and dive-bombing aircraft from the early 1940s.
An amphibious turboprop designed around scooping water and delivering it to fires.
A purpose-built agricultural aircraft that also became a single-engine air tanker.
An experimental French helicopter with two coaxial, counter-rotating rotors.
The H130 utility helicopter, descended from the AS350 and fitted with a Fenestron.
A twin-engine business jet designed to retain some of the utility flexibility associated with the PC-12.
A Canadian tandem-seat trainer developed after the Second World War.
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A long-range twin whose programme emphasised composite construction and more electrically powered systems.
Airbus's first production aircraft, built around a twin-engine wide-body layout.
An open-cockpit biplane trainer that found a second life in civilian flying.
The tip-tanked turbofan Learjets, combining the classic compact airframe with longer range and careers in business, military and medical flying.
A specialised reconnaissance aircraft designed for very high altitude and sustained supersonic flight.
A lightweight pusher family with an enclosed cabin and a high, braced wing.
An enlarged Velocity kit aircraft with a canard and rear-mounted pusher propeller.
Cessna's retractable-gear Centurion, a high-wing touring aircraft.
A tandem-seat utility aircraft whose light structure and high wing suit bush, towing and recreational work.
A carrier-capable multirole fighter, larger than the earlier Hornet from which it developed.
The purpose-built Ryan monoplane used by Charles Lindbergh for his 1927 solo Atlantic crossing.
A tandem two-seat sailplane family used for training and cross-country soaring.
A four-engine jetliner that helped establish the shape of long-distance jet travel.
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