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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.
Two related Dutch regional jets developed from the F28 lineage.
A push-pull twin with one engine at each end of the central fuselage.
A tandem-seat light aircraft with a streamlined low-wing layout.
A light business jet with a swept wing, rear-mounted engines and an integrated flight deck.
A streamlined light twin helicopter, with the later Bell 230 in the same family.
A four-seat touring family whose Commander 114 added a larger engine and further refinements.
A radial-engined light transport whose long career covered passengers, freight and military training.
A two-seat, twin-engine fighter that served naval and land-based air forces in many roles.
The turboprop-powered member of Beechcraft’s tandem-seat Mentor training family.
An open-cockpit biplane trainer that found a second life in civilian flying.
The JetRanger and LongRanger family: a familiar turbine-helicopter shape with distinct cabin lengths.
A low-wing piston twin that carries the Beechcraft touring-aircraft lineage into two-engine flying.
The Mitchell medium bomber, named for aviation advocate Billy Mitchell.
A pressurised four-engine piston transport from the last major generation before the jet airliner.
The Wilga is the real-aircraft starting point for Mike Patey's DRACO and the simulator's DRACO X.
The Huey: a turbine-powered utility helicopter with a broad cabin and an unmistakable two-bladed rotor.
Cirrus's first type-certified aircraft, a composite piston single.
A powered hang-glider wing above an amphibious inflatable boat.
A four-seat high-wing single that spans generations of conventional instruments and glass cockpits.
The H130 utility helicopter, descended from the AS350 and fitted with a Fenestron.
A very light twin jet developed from the Eclipse 500.
A French two-seat aerobatic trainer with side-by-side seating and a distinctive curved wing outline.
A corrugated-metal transport best known in its three-engine form.
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