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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.
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 long-range twin designed around a new wide-body airframe and extensive composite construction.
A carrier-capable multirole fighter, larger than the earlier Hornet from which it developed.
The retractable member of Beechcraft’s Musketeer family: a roomy, four-cylinder travelling aircraft with an unusually large baggage door.
A British utility twin built around short regional and practical transport work.
A Swedish reconnaissance and dive-bombing aircraft from the early 1940s.
A small two-seat piston helicopter with a two-bladed main rotor.
Pipistrel's streamlined four-seat composite-aircraft design.
A four-seat touring family whose Commander 114 added a larger engine and further refinements.
A small open gyroplane with an unpowered rotor and pusher propulsion.
A compact rear-engined jet designed for short-haul regional airline work.
Grumman’s small twin-engine amphibian: a flying boat with retractable wheels and a life spanning wartime service, private travel and seaplane training.
A British jet trainer with tandem seating and a long military training career.
The tip-tanked turbofan Learjets, combining the classic compact airframe with longer range and careers in business, military and medical flying.
A radial-engined light transport whose long career covered passengers, freight and military training.
A personal jet with one engine above the rear fuselage and a distinctive V-tail.
A two-seat powered hang-glider trike with an open cockpit.
A 1920s transport family that developed from a single-engine airliner into a trimotor.
A utility-aircraft family whose stretched 207 branch trades compact proportions for more cabin space.
A two-seat light amphibian with a compact boat hull and a pusher propeller.
Cirrus's first type-certified aircraft, a composite piston single.
A late-war single-seat jet fighter with its engine mounted above the fuselage.
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