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A tandem-seat jet trainer that also found a second life in civilian display and racing.
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A tandem-seat jet trainer that also found a second life in civilian display and racing.
A modern open-cockpit light aircraft that revives the corrugated-metal style of the 1929 A50.
A four-engine military turboprop designed to combine tactical access with long-distance transport.
A tandem-seat development of Scheibe’s touring motorglider family.
Lockheed's tandem-seat Shooting Star jet trainer.
A single-engine utility helicopter known as the Écureuil, Squirrel and AStar.
The four-engine wide-body whose raised flight deck created one of aviation's most recognisable profiles.
A modern utility single whose family includes both tailwheel and nosewheel configurations.
A four-seat touring family whose Commander 114 added a larger engine and further refinements.
A First World War trainer that became a familiar sight in the barnstorming era.
A low-wing piston twin that carries the Beechcraft touring-aircraft lineage into two-engine flying.
A compact Czech touring aircraft with side-by-side seats and a streamlined low-wing airframe.
A post-war Czech light twin with a rounded cabin and engines carried on a low wing.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
Grumman’s small twin-engine amphibian: a flying boat with retractable wheels and a life spanning wartime service, private travel and seaplane training.
A compact rear-engined jet designed for short-haul regional airline work.
A composite, low-wing touring single with fixed gear and a turbocharged engine.
A French two-seat aerobatic trainer with side-by-side seating and a distinctive curved wing outline.
The Mitchell medium bomber, named for aviation advocate Billy Mitchell.
Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
A 1920s flying boat with two engines arranged in tandem above the wing.
A huge wooden flying-boat prototype that made one brief flight in 1947.
Piper's two-seat trainer with fixed tricycle landing gear.
A late-war single-seat jet fighter with its engine mounted above the fuselage.
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