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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 single-engine turboprop workhorse for passenger services, freight and remote-area transport.
A short-haul jet family that evolved through several generations of engines, wings and flight decks.
A post-war Businessliner with a radial engine, cabin transport ambitions and tailwheel gear.
A twin-hull flying boat with its engines mounted together above the wing.
A late member of the Nieuport V-strut scout family, remembered both as a First World War fighter and as an advanced trainer.
A small two-seat piston helicopter with a two-bladed main rotor.
A very large single-engine biplane designed for practical work from modest airfields.
A personal jet with one engine above the rear fuselage and a distinctive V-tail.
The Huey: a turbine-powered utility helicopter with a broad cabin and an unmistakable two-bladed rotor.
A four-seat, pressurised kit aircraft with a composite airframe and retractable landing gear.
A light turbine helicopter whose land-based Scout and naval Wasp branches served different jobs.
A small open gyroplane with an unpowered rotor and pusher propulsion.
A compact aerobatic biplane family with both single-seat and tandem-seat branches.
A high-wing twin turboprop developed for regional freight and passenger transport.
A post-war Czech light twin with a rounded cabin and engines carried on a low wing.
Piper's PA-31 utility twin, used in commuter, cargo and corporate transport.
Pipistrel's streamlined four-seat composite-aircraft design.
A twin-turboprop family whose smaller conventional-tail and larger T-tail branches have distinct identities.
A four-engine jetliner that helped establish the shape of long-distance jet travel.
A two-seat touring motorglider with interchangeable wing tips.
A light business jet with a swept wing, rear-mounted engines and an integrated flight deck.
A wartime fighter developed from the earlier Curtiss P-36.
A family of single-aisle airliners built around sidesticks, electronic flight controls and a shared cockpit.
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