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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.
Piper's PA-31 utility twin, used in commuter, cargo and corporate transport.
A side-by-side two-seat sailplane with a retractable powerplant for self-launching.
A corrugated-metal, three-engine transport from the formative years of airline travel.
A 1920s flying boat with two engines arranged in tandem above the wing.
Cirrus's first type-certified aircraft, a composite piston single.
A small observation-helicopter family with a rounded cabin and compact rotor system.
An electric-powered educational glider concept inspired by the human-powered MIT Daedalus 88.
A four-seat touring family whose Commander 114 added a larger engine and further refinements.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
Ted Smith's piston twin, later produced by Piper as the Aerostar.
A large twin-radial transport that carried heavy loads through wartime and post-war freight service.
A utility piston twin designed for commuter and specialist transport missions.
A rear-engined trijet built to bring jet service to shorter routes and smaller airports.
A military transport developed from the DC-3, used for cargo, troops, parachuting and glider towing.
A small three-engine demonstrator created to explore technologies for a future supersonic airliner.
A two-seat composite light-aircraft family with a high wing and a compact enclosed cabin.
RotorWay's two-seat kit-helicopter family, with piston and turbine simulator interpretations.
A long-range twin whose programme emphasised composite construction and more electrically powered systems.
A streamlined light twin helicopter, with the later Bell 230 in the same family.
A long-range trijet developed from the DC-10 with a stretched fuselage and revised wing and cockpit.
A small twin-engine amphibian that moved from business transport into military and utility service.
A tandem-seat light aircraft with a streamlined low-wing layout.
A compact rear-engined jet designed for short-haul regional airline work.
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