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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 streamlined light twin helicopter, with the later Bell 230 in the same family.
A fixed-gear twin turboprop with a long history in regional and remote-area transport.
Grumman’s small twin-engine amphibian: a flying boat with retractable wheels and a life spanning wartime service, private travel and seaplane training.
A long-running touring single, familiar in both V-tail and conventional-tail forms.
A twin-hull flying boat with its engines mounted together above the wing.
A pressurised twin turboprop with a canard, composite airframe and rear-facing propellers.
A twin-turbine Huey descendant with a four-blade main rotor.
A light business jet with a swept wing, rear-mounted engines and an integrated flight deck.
A wooden touring-aircraft family recognisable by the upward-angled outer wing panels.
A four-bladed utility helicopter developed from the LongRanger lineage.
A four-seat kit-built touring aircraft that expanded the RV family beyond two-seat designs.
A compact Japanese twin turboprop with a high wing and pressurised cabin.
A family of single-aisle airliners built around sidesticks, electronic flight controls and a shared cockpit.
A cabin-class piston twin designed for commuter, cargo and utility work.
A two-seat training single with a high wing and fixed tricycle landing gear.
A twin-engine business jet designed to retain some of the utility flexibility associated with the PC-12.
A pressurised four-engine piston transport from the last major generation before the jet airliner.
A composite touring single with a whole-aircraft parachute and several generations of avionics.
A radial-engine trainer that also served in combat and civilian warbird roles.
The four-engine Flying Fortress, a major American bomber of the Second World War.
A pioneering all-metal transport with an enclosed passenger cabin and corrugated skin.
Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
A pioneering light helicopter whose bubble cabin and exposed structure became widely recognisable.
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