NAMC YS-11 ↗
Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
Explore the aircraft. Find your simulator. Follow the sources.
Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
A stretched development of the DC-9 with rear-mounted engines and a five-abreast cabin.
A retractable-gear touring single with an all-metal airframe and a long-lived enthusiast following.
A radial-engined light transport whose long career covered passengers, freight and military training.
A late member of the Nieuport V-strut scout family, remembered both as a First World War fighter and as an advanced trainer.
Cessna's unusual piston-powered helicopter, marketed as the Skyhook.
A huge wooden flying-boat prototype that made one brief flight in 1947.
A large long-haul twin that introduced Boeing's first commercial fly-by-wire airliner flight controls.
The Wilga is the real-aircraft starting point for Mike Patey's DRACO and the simulator's DRACO X.
A fixed-wing observation aircraft with a helicopter-like view from its glazed nose.
The four-engine Flying Fortress, a major American bomber of the Second World War.
A British jet trainer with tandem seating and a long military training career.
Lockheed's wide-body TriStar, with three RB211 engines and a distinctive tail intake.
A late-war single-seat jet fighter with its engine mounted above the fuselage.
A heavy-lift helicopter built around an open frame and an external working load.
A Belgian light helicopter with two seats arranged side by side.
A small two-seat piston helicopter with a two-bladed main rotor.
A pioneering light helicopter whose bubble cabin and exposed structure became widely recognisable.
A two-seat amphibian with a flying-boat hull and a pusher engine above the cabin.
A pressurised single-engine turboprop family that combines a compact cabin with retractable gear.
A lightweight pusher family with an enclosed cabin and a high, braced wing.
The tip-tanked turbofan Learjets, combining the classic compact airframe with longer range and careers in business, military and medical flying.
A four-seat composite touring and training aircraft developed from Diamond's smaller two-seater.
An Italian light aircraft known for military training and aerobatic use.
New aircraft, useful sources and improvements to AirframeDB. Occasional updates, when there’s something to share.