Curtiss C-46 Commando ↗
A large twin-radial transport that carried heavy loads through wartime and post-war freight service.
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A large twin-radial transport that carried heavy loads through wartime and post-war freight service.
A very large single-engine biplane designed for practical work from modest airfields.
An enclosed, two-seat autogyro with side-by-side seating and a pusher propeller.
A box-shaped utility twin whose cabin and rear access are central to its design.
Grumman’s small twin-engine amphibian: a flying boat with retractable wheels and a life spanning wartime service, private travel and seaplane training.
A four-engine airliner that brought pressurised-cabin travel into scheduled service.
A tandem-seat canard homebuilt with a pusher engine and distinctive winglets.
A composite, low-wing touring single with fixed gear and a turbocharged engine.
An amphibious turboprop designed around scooping water and delivering it to fires.
A Canadian tandem-seat trainer developed after the Second World War.
A military liaison aircraft built around a high wing, tandem cabin and short-field utility work.
The Wilga is the real-aircraft starting point for Mike Patey's DRACO and the simulator's DRACO X.
A small observation-helicopter family with a rounded cabin and compact rotor system.
A four-engine tactical transport built around a rear loading ramp and access to austere airfields.
A four-engine jetliner that helped establish the shape of long-distance jet travel.
A military transport developed from the DC-3, used for cargo, troops, parachuting and glider towing.
A four-seat piston helicopter with a two-blade main rotor and conventional tail rotor.
Regional flying built around a high wing, two turboprops and short sectors.
A single-seat helicopter originally developed as a homebuilt kit.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
A wooden touring-aircraft family recognisable by the upward-angled outer wing panels.
A single-engine utility helicopter known as the Écureuil, Squirrel and AStar.
A low-wing piston twin that carries the Beechcraft touring-aircraft lineage into two-engine flying.
A fixed-wing observation aircraft with a helicopter-like view from its glazed nose.
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