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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 radial-engined light transport whose long career covered passengers, freight and military training.
A late-1930s cabin aircraft with metal construction and retractable landing gear.
A four-seat piston helicopter with a two-blade main rotor and conventional tail rotor.
An electric-powered educational glider concept inspired by the human-powered MIT Daedalus 88.
A swept-wing business jet designed around high subsonic cruise speed.
A small three-engine demonstrator created to explore technologies for a future supersonic airliner.
A lightweight short-field aircraft with a specialised wing and tall, shock-absorbing landing gear.
A twin-turboprop utility aircraft developed by Reims Aviation with Cessna.
A two-seat naval fighter with variable-sweep wings and a cockpit built around pilot and radar-intercept officer roles.
A regional jet family with four small engines, a high wing and a large split tail airbrake.
A four-engine airliner that brought pressurised-cabin travel into scheduled service.
A purpose-built agricultural aircraft that also became a single-engine air tanker.
A modern utility single whose family includes both tailwheel and nosewheel configurations.
A high-wing light sport aircraft with a broad glazed cabin and tricycle landing gear.
A small twin-engine amphibian that moved from business transport into military and utility service.
A long-range twin whose programme emphasised composite construction and more electrically powered systems.
Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
An early CRJ regional jet with rear-mounted engines and a small airliner flight deck.
A single-engine turboprop workhorse for passenger services, freight and remote-area transport.
A fixed-wing observation aircraft with a helicopter-like view from its glazed nose.
An enlarged Velocity kit aircraft with a canard and rear-mounted pusher propeller.
A modern composite twin with a roomy cabin and two wing-mounted piston engines.
A two-seat light aircraft with folding wings and a choice of nosewheel or tailwheel gear.
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