Douglas C-47 Skytrain ↗
A military transport developed from the DC-3, used for cargo, troops, parachuting and glider towing.
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A military transport developed from the DC-3, used for cargo, troops, parachuting and glider towing.
A tandem-seat jet trainer that also found a second life in civilian display and racing.
A six-engine heavy transport created for exceptionally large external and internal loads.
A post-war Businessliner with a radial engine, cabin transport ambitions and tailwheel gear.
A tandem-seat light aircraft with a streamlined low-wing layout.
A light turbine helicopter whose land-based Scout and naval Wasp branches served different jobs.
A very large single-engine biplane designed for practical work from modest airfields.
A twin-radial military transport with a rear ramp and short-field design priorities.
A lightweight short-field aircraft with a specialised wing and tall, shock-absorbing landing gear.
A very light twin jet developed from the Eclipse 500.
A super-midsize business jet with a swept wing, rear-mounted engines and an integrated glass cockpit.
Grumman’s small twin-engine amphibian: a flying boat with retractable wheels and a life spanning wartime service, private travel and seaplane training.
A compact utility helicopter distinguished by its enclosed Fenestron tail rotor.
A DC-10-derived tanker that combined aerial refuelling with passenger and cargo transport.
A twin-turboprop regional airliner developed through Swedish and American industrial cooperation.
The Stationair utility family, combining a high wing with fixed landing gear.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
A narrow-body twin developed as a new generation of medium-range airliner.
A pressurised four-engine piston transport from the last major generation before the jet airliner.
An open-cockpit biplane trainer that found a second life in civilian flying.
A twin-radial airliner that helped make practical passenger transport a regular business.
Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
A carbon-fibre aerobatic monoplane family with a dedicated air-racing branch.
A four-seat kit-built touring aircraft that expanded the RV family beyond two-seat designs.
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