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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.
A pioneering all-metal transport with an enclosed passenger cabin and corrugated skin.
A compact aerobatic biplane family with both single-seat and tandem-seat branches.
A long-range twin whose programme emphasised composite construction and more electrically powered systems.
A modern composite twin with a roomy cabin and two wing-mounted piston engines.
A twin-engine utility helicopter with roots in the BK 117 and EC145 families.
A high-wing utility turboprop designed for short-field passenger and cargo work.
A composite touring single with a whole-aircraft parachute and several generations of avionics.
The H130 utility helicopter, descended from the AS350 and fitted with a Fenestron.
A cabin-class piston twin designed for commuter, cargo and utility work.
A 1920s flying boat with two engines arranged in tandem above the wing.
A DC-10-derived tanker that combined aerial refuelling with passenger and cargo transport.
A six-engine heavy transport created for exceptionally large external and internal loads.
The Model 525 CitationJet, the starting point of Cessna's CJ and M2 lineage.
A push-pull twin with one engine at each end of the central fuselage.
A long-running touring single, familiar in both V-tail and conventional-tail forms.
A composite amphibian that carries Dornier's centreline engine arrangement into the turboprop era.
The purpose-built Ryan monoplane used by Charles Lindbergh for his 1927 solo Atlantic crossing.
A small observation-helicopter family with a rounded cabin and compact rotor system.
An advanced trainer known around the world as the Texan, Harvard and SNJ.
A light turbine helicopter whose land-based Scout and naval Wasp branches served different jobs.
A family of single-aisle airliners built around sidesticks, electronic flight controls and a shared cockpit.
A short-haul jet family that evolved through several generations of engines, wings and flight decks.
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