Piper Comanche ↗
A retractable-gear touring single with an all-metal airframe and a long-lived enthusiast following.
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A retractable-gear touring single with an all-metal airframe and a long-lived enthusiast following.
An open-cockpit biplane trainer that found a second life in civilian flying.
The retractable member of Beechcraft’s Musketeer family: a roomy, four-cylinder travelling aircraft with an unusually large baggage door.
A twin-radial airliner that helped make practical passenger transport a regular business.
The four-engine Flying Fortress, a major American bomber of the Second World War.
A compact regional turboprop with a pressurised cabin for up to 19 passengers.
A single-seat helicopter originally developed as a homebuilt kit.
A regional turboprop family whose short early versions and larger Q400 have different proportions and systems.
A single-engine turboprop workhorse for passenger services, freight and remote-area transport.
A swept-wing business jet designed around high subsonic cruise speed.
A midsize business jet developed by Bombardier’s Learjet division.
A wooden touring-aircraft family recognisable by the upward-angled outer wing panels.
A self-launching sailplane family with its engine inside the fuselage and a folding nose propeller.
A large amphibious flying boat built around maritime rescue and utility transport.
The Huey: a turbine-powered utility helicopter with a broad cabin and an unmistakable two-bladed rotor.
Lockheed's wide-body TriStar, with three RB211 engines and a distinctive tail intake.
A DC-10-derived tanker that combined aerial refuelling with passenger and cargo transport.
A side-by-side military trainer with a low wing and fixed tricycle landing gear.
A four-seat high-wing single that spans generations of conventional instruments and glass cockpits.
The second-generation Harrier, designed around vectored thrust and short-field operation.
A French two-seat aerobatic trainer with side-by-side seating and a distinctive curved wing outline.
Lockheed's tandem-seat Shooting Star jet trainer.
The Wilga is the real-aircraft starting point for Mike Patey's DRACO and the simulator's DRACO X.
A utility piston twin designed for commuter and specialist transport missions.
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