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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 six-seat composite single turboprop with a pressurised cabin and retractable gear.
A side-by-side two-seat sailplane with a retractable powerplant for self-launching.
A corrugated-metal transport best known in its three-engine form.
A pioneering all-metal transport with an enclosed passenger cabin and corrugated skin.
A wartime fighter developed from the earlier Curtiss P-36.
Tecnam's two-seat, low-wing Sierra, introduced in the early 2000s.
The JetRanger and LongRanger family: a familiar turbine-helicopter shape with distinct cabin lengths.
A two-seat composite trainer with a low wing and a large canopy.
A streamlined light twin helicopter, with the later Bell 230 in the same family.
An enclosed, two-seat autogyro with side-by-side seating and a pusher propeller.
A four-engine airliner that brought pressurised-cabin travel into scheduled service.
An unpowered military cargo glider designed to deliver troops and equipment behind a tow aircraft.
A military liaison aircraft built around a high wing, tandem cabin and short-field utility work.
A compact Japanese twin turboprop with a high wing and pressurised cabin.
A four-seat kit-built touring aircraft that expanded the RV family beyond two-seat designs.
A six-engine heavy transport created for exceptionally large external and internal loads.
A close-air-support aircraft with a straight wing, twin tail and two widely separated jet engines.
A high-wing twin turboprop developed for regional freight and passenger transport.
A Swedish reconnaissance and dive-bombing aircraft from the early 1940s.
A compact racing aeroplane built around a large radial engine and very short fuselage.
A jet-powered military transport designed for both strategic loads and tactical airfield access.
A personal jet with one engine above the rear fuselage and a distinctive V-tail.
A long-range trijet developed from the DC-10 with a stretched fuselage and revised wing and cockpit.
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