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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.
A stretched development of the DC-9 with rear-mounted engines and a five-abreast cabin.
The JetRanger and LongRanger family: a familiar turbine-helicopter shape with distinct cabin lengths.
A Canadian tandem-seat trainer developed after the Second World War.
The second-generation Harrier, designed around vectored thrust and short-field operation.
A fixed-wing observation aircraft with a helicopter-like view from its glazed nose.
The Wilga is the real-aircraft starting point for Mike Patey's DRACO and the simulator's DRACO X.
A compact Japanese twin turboprop with a high wing and pressurised cabin.
A four-engine jetliner that helped establish the shape of long-distance jet travel.
A pressurised cabin-class piston twin, from the tip-tanked 414 to the longer-wing 414A and its many aftermarket conversions.
A long-running touring single, familiar in both V-tail and conventional-tail forms.
A compact two-seat light aircraft with a high wing and a wide range of development variants.
A wartime fighter developed from the earlier Curtiss P-36.
A three-engine airliner that became a mainstay of Soviet and Russian passenger transport.
A small twin-engine amphibian that moved from business transport into military and utility service.
A radial-engined light transport whose long career covered passengers, freight and military training.
A lightweight short-field aircraft with a specialised wing and tall, shock-absorbing landing gear.
The retractable member of Beechcraft’s Musketeer family: a roomy, four-cylinder travelling aircraft with an unusually large baggage door.
An open, single-seat ultralight with its propeller behind the pilot.
A long-range twin designed around a new wide-body airframe and extensive composite construction.
A slender supersonic trainer with tandem seats and two small afterburning turbojets.
A regional turboprop family whose short early versions and larger Q400 have different proportions and systems.
A side-by-side two-seat sailplane with a retractable powerplant for self-launching.
The purpose-built Ryan monoplane used by Charles Lindbergh for his 1927 solo Atlantic crossing.
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