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.
A very large single-engine biplane designed for practical work from modest airfields.
A tandem-seat jet trainer that also found a second life in civilian display and racing.
A slender supersonic trainer with tandem seats and two small afterburning turbojets.
A heavy-lift helicopter built around an open frame and an external working load.
A pioneering all-metal transport with an enclosed passenger cabin and corrugated skin.
A two-seat, twin-engine fighter that served naval and land-based air forces in many roles.
A cabin-class piston twin designed for commuter, cargo and utility work.
A long-range twin whose programme emphasised composite construction and more electrically powered systems.
The tip-tanked turbofan Learjets, combining the classic compact airframe with longer range and careers in business, military and medical flying.
A tailwheel utility aircraft with a high wing and a large cabin loading door.
An early CRJ regional jet with rear-mounted engines and a small airliner flight deck.
A four-engine jetliner that helped establish the shape of long-distance jet travel.
A four-seat touring family whose Commander 114 added a larger engine and further refinements.
A close-air-support aircraft with a straight wing, twin tail and two widely separated jet engines.
The Huey: a turbine-powered utility helicopter with a broad cabin and an unmistakable two-bladed rotor.
A low-wing agricultural Cessna with a cockpit and hopper arranged around the job.
A modern open-cockpit light aircraft that revives the corrugated-metal style of the 1929 A50.
An unpowered military cargo glider designed to deliver troops and equipment behind a tow aircraft.
A two-seat composite kit aircraft developed from the Lancair 320.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
A five-seat composite single whose development led to the diesel DA50 RG.
Airbus's first production aircraft, built around a twin-engine wide-body layout.
A huge wooden flying-boat prototype that made one brief flight in 1947.
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