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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.
Grumman’s small twin-engine amphibian: a flying boat with retractable wheels and a life spanning wartime service, private travel and seaplane training.
A pressurised regional airliner with a high wing and two Rolls-Royce Dart turboprops.
A tandem-seat jet trainer that also found a second life in civilian display and racing.
A very large single-engine biplane designed for practical work from modest airfields.
A light turbine helicopter whose land-based Scout and naval Wasp branches served different jobs.
The Wilga is the real-aircraft starting point for Mike Patey's DRACO and the simulator's DRACO X.
A lightweight short-field aircraft with a specialised wing and tall, shock-absorbing landing gear.
Tecnam's four-seat high-wing single, built with metal and carbon-fibre components.
A corrugated-metal transport best known in its three-engine form.
Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
A powered hang-glider wing above an amphibious inflatable boat.
A light tandem-seat taildragger built around the familiar braced high-wing layout.
A four-engine airliner whose history also includes long-range maritime military service.
A four-seat high-wing single that spans generations of conventional instruments and glass cockpits.
A radial-engine trainer that also served in combat and civilian warbird roles.
A streamlined light twin helicopter, with the later Bell 230 in the same family.
A box-shaped utility twin whose cabin and rear access are central to its design.
A specialised reconnaissance aircraft designed for very high altitude and sustained supersonic flight.
A twin-radial airliner that helped make practical passenger transport a regular business.
A very light twin jet developed from the Eclipse 500.
A small observation-helicopter family with a rounded cabin and compact rotor system.
Cessna's retractable-gear Centurion, a high-wing touring aircraft.
A heavy transport helicopter whose two large rotors remove the need for a tail rotor.
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