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Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
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Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
An experimental twin-boom racing aircraft commissioned by Bob Pond and designed by Burt Rutan.
A self-launching sailplane family with its engine inside the fuselage and a folding nose propeller.
A regional jet family with four small engines, a high wing and a large split tail airbrake.
A narrow-body twin developed as a new generation of medium-range airliner.
A two-seat naval fighter with variable-sweep wings and a cockpit built around pilot and radar-intercept officer roles.
A long-range twin whose programme emphasised composite construction and more electrically powered systems.
A First World War trainer that became a familiar sight in the barnstorming era.
A shorter wide-body Airbus from the transition to two-pilot, electronic-instrument cockpits.
A tandem-seat jet trainer that also found a second life in civilian display and racing.
A tandem-seat development of Scheibe’s touring motorglider family.
A powered hang-glider wing above an amphibious inflatable boat.
A twin-hull flying boat with its engines mounted together above the wing.
A small twin-engine amphibian that moved from business transport into military and utility service.
The retractable member of Beechcraft’s Musketeer family: a roomy, four-cylinder travelling aircraft with an unusually large baggage door.
A very large single-engine biplane designed for practical work from modest airfields.
A modern open-cockpit light aircraft that revives the corrugated-metal style of the 1929 A50.
A twin-turboprop utility aircraft developed by Reims Aviation with Cessna.
Piper's two-seat trainer with fixed tricycle landing gear.
A purpose-built aerobatic monoplane family developed by pilot and designer Walter Extra.
A compact twin-engine helicopter widely used for medical, police and training work.
A streamlined twin-engine helicopter with a Fenestron tail rotor and retractable landing gear.
A large twin-radial transport that carried heavy loads through wartime and post-war freight service.
A two-seat composite light-aircraft family with a high wing and a compact enclosed cabin.
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