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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 corrugated-metal, three-engine transport from the formative years of airline travel.
An all-metal sport and touring aircraft from Bayerische Flugzeugwerke.
A Polish utility aircraft designed for short takeoffs and landings.
A side-by-side two-seat sailplane with a retractable powerplant for self-launching.
A wooden touring-aircraft family recognisable by the upward-angled outer wing panels.
A pressurised cabin-class piston twin, from the tip-tanked 414 to the longer-wing 414A and its many aftermarket conversions.
A composite two-seat light sport aircraft with an unobstructed cantilever high wing.
Cessna's unusual piston-powered helicopter, marketed as the Skyhook.
A British jet trainer with tandem seating and a long military training career.
A four-engine airliner that brought pressurised-cabin travel into scheduled service.
A small open gyroplane with an unpowered rotor and pusher propulsion.
The Stationair utility family, combining a high wing with fixed landing gear.
Lockheed's tandem-seat Shooting Star jet trainer.
The fixed-gear, six-cylinder touring branch of Piper's PA-28 family.
A powered hang-glider wing above an amphibious inflatable boat.
The Mitchell medium bomber, named for aviation advocate Billy Mitchell.
A jet-powered military transport designed for both strategic loads and tactical airfield access.
The turboprop-powered member of Beechcraft’s tandem-seat Mentor training family.
A DC-10-derived tanker that combined aerial refuelling with passenger and cargo transport.
A light two-seat helicopter with a side-by-side cabin and a semi-rigid main rotor.
A twin-turbine Huey descendant with a four-blade main rotor.
A carbon-fibre aerobatic monoplane family with a dedicated air-racing branch.
A tailwheel utility aircraft with a high wing and a large cabin loading door.
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