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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 military transport developed from the DC-3, used for cargo, troops, parachuting and glider towing.
A small twin-engine amphibian that moved from business transport into military and utility service.
A tandem-seat jet trainer that also found a second life in civilian display and racing.
A small two-seat piston helicopter with a two-bladed main rotor.
A compact twin-engine transport helicopter with retractable gear and a long development history.
A four-seat, pressurised kit aircraft with a composite airframe and retractable landing gear.
A late-1930s cabin aircraft with metal construction and retractable landing gear.
A four-engine jetliner that helped establish the shape of long-distance jet travel.
A compact utility helicopter distinguished by its enclosed Fenestron tail rotor.
Piper's two-seat trainer with fixed tricycle landing gear.
A four-seat high-wing single that spans generations of conventional instruments and glass cockpits.
A powered hang-glider wing above an amphibious inflatable boat.
A low-wing piston family that spans simple trainers, touring aircraft and retractable-gear Arrows.
A self-launching sailplane family with its engine inside the fuselage and a folding nose propeller.
An experimental twin-boom racing aircraft commissioned by Bob Pond and designed by Burt Rutan.
A midsize business jet developed by Bombardier’s Learjet division.
A corrugated-metal, three-engine transport from the formative years of airline travel.
A two-seat naval fighter with variable-sweep wings and a cockpit built around pilot and radar-intercept officer roles.
Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
A small observation-helicopter family with a rounded cabin and compact rotor system.
A composite touring single with a whole-aircraft parachute and several generations of avionics.
An enclosed-cabin development of the Bell 47, shaped for passenger and executive transport.
The purpose-built Ryan monoplane used by Charles Lindbergh for his 1927 solo Atlantic crossing.
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