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Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
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Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
A late-war single-seat jet fighter with its engine mounted above the fuselage.
A long-running touring single, familiar in both V-tail and conventional-tail forms.
A twin-turboprop family whose smaller conventional-tail and larger T-tail branches have distinct identities.
A corrugated-metal, three-engine transport from the formative years of airline travel.
The second-generation Harrier, designed around vectored thrust and short-field operation.
A four-engine tactical transport built around a rear loading ramp and access to austere airfields.
A side-by-side two-seat sailplane with a retractable powerplant for self-launching.
A single-seat helicopter originally developed as a homebuilt kit.
A radial-engined utility aircraft closely associated with bush flying and float operations.
A small twin-engine amphibian that moved from business transport into military and utility service.
A two-seat light amphibian with a compact boat hull and a pusher propeller.
A tandem-seat autogyro prototype developed around transport and observation roles.
A two-seat naval fighter with variable-sweep wings and a cockpit built around pilot and radar-intercept officer roles.
A composite two-seat light sport aircraft with an unobstructed cantilever high wing.
A self-launching sailplane family with its engine inside the fuselage and a folding nose propeller.
A pioneering light helicopter whose bubble cabin and exposed structure became widely recognisable.
A six-engine heavy transport created for exceptionally large external and internal loads.
A utility piston twin designed for commuter and specialist transport missions.
A purpose-built agricultural aircraft that also became a single-engine air tanker.
A DC-10-derived tanker that combined aerial refuelling with passenger and cargo transport.
A tandem-seat development of Scheibe’s touring motorglider family.
A two-seat powered hang-glider trike with an open cockpit.
A short-haul jet family that evolved through several generations of engines, wings and flight decks.
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