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Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
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Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
A single-seat helicopter originally developed as a homebuilt kit.
A four-seat touring family whose Commander 114 added a larger engine and further refinements.
A regional jet family with four small engines, a high wing and a large split tail airbrake.
The Wilga is the real-aircraft starting point for Mike Patey's DRACO and the simulator's DRACO X.
A huge wooden flying-boat prototype that made one brief flight in 1947.
Diamond's four-seat light twin, developed with diesel-powered versions.
A lightweight short-field aircraft with a specialised wing and tall, shock-absorbing landing gear.
A two-seat composite kit aircraft developed from the Lancair 320.
A four-engine airliner whose history also includes long-range maritime military service.
A compact Japanese twin turboprop with a high wing and pressurised cabin.
The JetRanger and LongRanger family: a familiar turbine-helicopter shape with distinct cabin lengths.
A long-range twin designed around a new wide-body airframe and extensive composite construction.
A wartime fighter developed from the earlier Curtiss P-36.
An enclosed gyroplane represented in VSKYLABS’ X-Plane fleet.
A compact Australian wartime fighter built around a radial engine.
A modern medium twin-engine helicopter developed as a successor to the Dauphin line.
An experimental French helicopter with two coaxial, counter-rotating rotors.
The Huey: a turbine-powered utility helicopter with a broad cabin and an unmistakable two-bladed rotor.
A two-seat light aircraft with folding wings and a choice of nosewheel or tailwheel gear.
A shorter wide-body Airbus from the transition to two-pilot, electronic-instrument cockpits.
A corrugated-metal, three-engine transport from the formative years of airline travel.
A four-engine airliner that brought pressurised-cabin travel into scheduled service.
A heavy-lift helicopter built around an open frame and an external working load.
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