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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 tandem two-seat sailplane designed for instruction and broader soaring use.
The purpose-built Ryan monoplane used by Charles Lindbergh for his 1927 solo Atlantic crossing.
A four-engine airliner whose history also includes long-range maritime military service.
A pressurised regional airliner with a high wing and two Rolls-Royce Dart turboprops.
The Huey: a turbine-powered utility helicopter with a broad cabin and an unmistakable two-bladed rotor.
A heavy-lift helicopter built around an open frame and an external working load.
A two-seat touring motorglider with interchangeable wing tips.
A vast inter-war flying boat with twelve engines arranged in six paired installations.
A post-war Businessliner with a radial engine, cabin transport ambitions and tailwheel gear.
Ted Smith's piston twin, later produced by Piper as the Aerostar.
A Canadian tandem-seat trainer developed after the Second World War.
A compact aerobatic biplane family with both single-seat and tandem-seat branches.
A high-wing twin turboprop developed for regional freight and passenger transport.
A single-engine turboprop workhorse for passenger services, freight and remote-area transport.
A small open gyroplane with an unpowered rotor and pusher propulsion.
A military transport developed from the DC-3, used for cargo, troops, parachuting and glider towing.
A heavy transport helicopter whose two large rotors remove the need for a tail rotor.
A four-bladed utility helicopter developed from the LongRanger lineage.
Lockheed's wide-body TriStar, with three RB211 engines and a distinctive tail intake.
A close-air-support aircraft with a straight wing, twin tail and two widely separated jet engines.
A four-seat, pressurised kit aircraft with a composite airframe and retractable landing gear.
A streamlined twin-engine helicopter with a Fenestron tail rotor and retractable landing gear.
A late member of the Nieuport V-strut scout family, remembered both as a First World War fighter and as an advanced trainer.
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