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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.
An open-cockpit biplane trainer that found a second life in civilian flying.
A heavy transport helicopter whose two large rotors remove the need for a tail rotor.
A 1920s transport family that developed from a single-engine airliner into a trimotor.
A four-seat, pressurised kit aircraft with a composite airframe and retractable landing gear.
A two-seat training single with a high wing and fixed tricycle landing gear.
A fixed-wing observation aircraft with a helicopter-like view from its glazed nose.
An amphibious turboprop designed around scooping water and delivering it to fires.
The four-engine wide-body whose raised flight deck created one of aviation's most recognisable profiles.
A purpose-built agricultural aircraft that also became a single-engine air tanker.
A regional turboprop family whose short early versions and larger Q400 have different proportions and systems.
A four-engine tactical transport built around a rear loading ramp and access to austere airfields.
Dassault's long-range Falcon 8X, developed from the three-engine 7X.
Ted Smith's piston twin, later produced by Piper as the Aerostar.
A composite touring single with a whole-aircraft parachute and several generations of avionics.
Beechcraft's Model 76, designed to introduce pilots to twin-engine flying.
A radial-engined utility aircraft closely associated with bush flying and float operations.
A tailwheel utility aircraft with a high wing and a large cabin loading door.
A modern utility single whose family includes both tailwheel and nosewheel configurations.
A very large single-engine biplane designed for practical work from modest airfields.
A First World War trainer that became a familiar sight in the barnstorming era.
A retractable-gear touring single with an all-metal airframe and a long-lived enthusiast following.
A three-engine airliner that became a mainstay of Soviet and Russian passenger transport.
An experimental twin-boom racing aircraft commissioned by Bob Pond and designed by Burt Rutan.
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