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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 two-seat light aircraft with folding wings and a choice of nosewheel or tailwheel gear.
The turboprop-powered member of Beechcraft’s tandem-seat Mentor training family.
A 1920s transport family that developed from a single-engine airliner into a trimotor.
The Mitchell medium bomber, named for aviation advocate Billy Mitchell.
A shorter wide-body Airbus from the transition to two-pilot, electronic-instrument cockpits.
A lightweight pusher family with an enclosed cabin and a high, braced wing.
A wooden touring-aircraft family recognisable by the upward-angled outer wing panels.
A tandem-seat homebuilt jet with composite construction and retractable landing gear.
Ted Smith's piston twin, later produced by Piper as the Aerostar.
A five-seat turbine helicopter developed from Robinson's smaller piston-helicopter line.
A compact two-seat light aircraft with a high wing and a wide range of development variants.
A two-seat naval fighter with variable-sweep wings and a cockpit built around pilot and radar-intercept officer roles.
Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
A tandem-seat utility aircraft whose light structure and high wing suit bush, towing and recreational work.
The four-engine wide-body whose raised flight deck created one of aviation's most recognisable profiles.
A Canadian tandem-seat trainer developed after the Second World War.
A tandem-seat canard homebuilt with a pusher engine and distinctive winglets.
A French two-seat aerobatic trainer with side-by-side seating and a distinctive curved wing outline.
A compact Japanese twin turboprop with a high wing and pressurised cabin.
A tandem two-seat sailplane family used for training and cross-country soaring.
A single-seat aerobatic monoplane that also became a familiar air-racing aircraft.
A six-engine flying boat created for long-distance passenger travel over water.
A long-range fighter whose different engine and canopy developments produced several distinct forms.
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