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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 large twin-radial transport that carried heavy loads through wartime and post-war freight service.
A fixed-gear twin turboprop with a long history in regional and remote-area transport.
A single-engine turboprop workhorse for passenger services, freight and remote-area transport.
A four-seat piston helicopter with a two-blade main rotor and conventional tail rotor.
A Swedish reconnaissance and dive-bombing aircraft from the early 1940s.
A lightweight short-field aircraft with a specialised wing and tall, shock-absorbing landing gear.
A long-range strategic bomber with a swept wing and eight jet engines in paired pods.
A compact utility helicopter distinguished by its enclosed Fenestron tail rotor.
A five-seat composite single whose development led to the diesel DA50 RG.
A European variable-sweep combat-aircraft family with distinct strike and interceptor versions.
A vast inter-war flying boat with twelve engines arranged in six paired installations.
A tandem-seat homebuilt jet with composite construction and retractable landing gear.
An enclosed-cabin development of the Bell 47, shaped for passenger and executive transport.
A long-range twin designed around a new wide-body airframe and extensive composite construction.
Ted Smith's piston twin, later produced by Piper as the Aerostar.
A modern open-cockpit light aircraft that revives the corrugated-metal style of the 1929 A50.
A purpose-built aerobatic monoplane family developed by pilot and designer Walter Extra.
Lockheed's tandem-seat Shooting Star jet trainer.
A rear-engined trijet built to bring jet service to shorter routes and smaller airports.
An enclosed, two-seat autogyro with side-by-side seating and a pusher propeller.
A compact two-seat light aircraft with a high wing and a wide range of development variants.
A side-by-side two-seat sailplane with a retractable powerplant for self-launching.
A four-seat, pressurised kit aircraft with a composite airframe and retractable landing gear.
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