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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 very large single-engine biplane designed for practical work from modest airfields.
A small two-seat piston helicopter with a two-bladed main rotor.
A carbon-fibre aerobatic monoplane family with a dedicated air-racing branch.
Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
An experimental French helicopter with two coaxial, counter-rotating rotors.
A streamlined twin-engine helicopter with a Fenestron tail rotor and retractable landing gear.
The retractable member of Beechcraft’s Musketeer family: a roomy, four-cylinder travelling aircraft with an unusually large baggage door.
A modern open-cockpit light aircraft that revives the corrugated-metal style of the 1929 A50.
A lightweight short-field aircraft with a specialised wing and tall, shock-absorbing landing gear.
A cabin-class piston twin designed for commuter, cargo and utility work.
A compact Australian wartime fighter built around a radial engine.
A tandem-seat development of Scheibe’s touring motorglider family.
A single-engine turboprop workhorse for passenger services, freight and remote-area transport.
A corrugated-metal, three-engine transport from the formative years of airline travel.
A side-by-side two-seat sailplane with a retractable powerplant for self-launching.
A low-wing piston family that spans simple trainers, touring aircraft and retractable-gear Arrows.
A carrier-capable multirole fighter, larger than the earlier Hornet from which it developed.
A four-seat composite touring and training aircraft developed from Diamond's smaller two-seater.
A compact twin-engine transport helicopter with retractable gear and a long development history.
A high-wing utility turboprop designed for short-field passenger and cargo work.
A four-seat piston helicopter with a two-blade main rotor and conventional tail rotor.
A four-engine jetliner that helped establish the shape of long-distance jet travel.
A two-seat light aircraft with folding wings and a choice of nosewheel or tailwheel gear.
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