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The retractable member of Beechcraft’s Musketeer family: a roomy, four-cylinder travelling aircraft with an unusually large baggage door.
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The retractable member of Beechcraft’s Musketeer family: a roomy, four-cylinder travelling aircraft with an unusually large baggage door.
A light turbine helicopter whose land-based Scout and naval Wasp branches served different jobs.
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.
A tailwheel utility aircraft with a high wing and a large cabin loading door.
A high-wing utility aircraft known for short-field work and a broad choice of working configurations.
An experimental French helicopter with two coaxial, counter-rotating rotors.
A two-seat amphibian with a flying-boat hull and a pusher engine above the cabin.
A four-engine airliner that brought pressurised-cabin travel into scheduled service.
A four-engine jetliner that helped establish the shape of long-distance jet travel.
A twin-engine utility helicopter with roots in the BK 117 and EC145 families.
A compact twin-engine helicopter widely used for medical, police and training work.
The Wilga is the real-aircraft starting point for Mike Patey's DRACO and the simulator's DRACO X.
A two-seat, twin-engine fighter that served naval and land-based air forces in many roles.
The tip-tanked turbofan Learjets, combining the classic compact airframe with longer range and careers in business, military and medical flying.
A two-seat composite trainer with a low wing and a large canopy.
A rear-engined trijet built to bring jet service to shorter routes and smaller airports.
A powered hang-glider wing above an amphibious inflatable boat.
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 twin-turbine Huey descendant with a four-blade main rotor.
A DC-10-derived tanker that combined aerial refuelling with passenger and cargo transport.
A tandem-seat jet trainer that also found a second life in civilian display and racing.
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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