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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.
Pipistrel's streamlined four-seat composite-aircraft design.
A utility-aircraft family whose stretched 207 branch trades compact proportions for more cabin space.
A European variable-sweep combat-aircraft family with distinct strike and interceptor versions.
A Swedish reconnaissance and dive-bombing aircraft from the early 1940s.
A tandem-seat canard homebuilt with a pusher engine and distinctive winglets.
The purpose-built Ryan monoplane used by Charles Lindbergh for his 1927 solo Atlantic crossing.
A large amphibious flying boat built around maritime rescue and utility transport.
A pressurised single-engine turboprop family that combines a compact cabin with retractable gear.
A pioneering light helicopter whose bubble cabin and exposed structure became widely recognisable.
A twin-radial military transport with a rear ramp and short-field design priorities.
A two-seat powered hang-glider trike with an open cockpit.
A small three-engine demonstrator created to explore technologies for a future supersonic airliner.
An enclosed-cabin development of the Bell 47, shaped for passenger and executive transport.
A compact racing aeroplane built around a large radial engine and very short fuselage.
A personal jet with one engine above the rear fuselage and a distinctive V-tail.
The H130 utility helicopter, descended from the AS350 and fitted with a Fenestron.
A tailwheel utility aircraft with a high wing and a large cabin loading door.
A purpose-built agricultural aircraft that also became a single-engine air tanker.
Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
A light tandem-seat taildragger built around the familiar braced high-wing layout.
A two-seat composite kit aircraft developed from the Lancair 320.
A fixed-wing observation aircraft with a helicopter-like view from its glazed nose.
A composite two-seat light sport aircraft with an unobstructed cantilever high wing.
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