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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.
The Huey: a turbine-powered utility helicopter with a broad cabin and an unmistakable two-bladed rotor.
A large long-haul twin that introduced Boeing's first commercial fly-by-wire airliner flight controls.
A two-seat light amphibian with a compact boat hull and a pusher propeller.
A low-wing piston twin that carries the Beechcraft touring-aircraft lineage into two-engine flying.
A single-engine utility helicopter known as the Écureuil, Squirrel and AStar.
A very light twin jet developed from the Eclipse 500.
A side-by-side touring motorglider used for both powered flying and soaring.
A British jet trainer with tandem seating and a long military training career.
An enclosed-cabin development of the Bell 47, shaped for passenger and executive transport.
A four-seat, pressurised kit aircraft with a composite airframe and retractable landing gear.
A light turbine helicopter combining an Alouette II airframe with more powerful Alouette III components.
A wide-cabin business-jet family that developed from Canadair's original Challenger programme.
A compact Italian light twin with a shoulder wing and metal airframe.
A 1920s flying boat with two engines arranged in tandem above the wing.
A long-range strategic bomber with a swept wing and eight jet engines in paired pods.
A composite two-seat light sport aircraft with an unobstructed cantilever high wing.
A long-running touring single, familiar in both V-tail and conventional-tail forms.
A compact twin-engine transport helicopter with retractable gear and a long development history.
A long-range twin whose programme emphasised composite construction and more electrically powered systems.
A twin-radial military transport with a rear ramp and short-field design priorities.
A twin-turboprop regional airliner developed through Swedish and American industrial cooperation.
A four-abreast regional-jet family spanning the E170, E175, E190 and E195.
A small three-engine demonstrator created to explore technologies for a future supersonic airliner.
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