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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.
Grumman’s small twin-engine amphibian: a flying boat with retractable wheels and a life spanning wartime service, private travel and seaplane training.
A compact Czech touring aircraft with side-by-side seats and a streamlined low-wing airframe.
A personal jet with one engine above the rear fuselage and a distinctive V-tail.
A British utility twin built around short regional and practical transport work.
A twin-hull flying boat with its engines mounted together above the wing.
Lockheed's wide-body TriStar, with three RB211 engines and a distinctive tail intake.
An amphibious turboprop designed around scooping water and delivering it to fires.
A tandem-seat jet trainer that also found a second life in civilian display and racing.
A four-seat composite touring and training aircraft developed from Diamond's smaller two-seater.
A light amphibian with a hull, retractable wheels and a pusher propeller.
A single-seat helicopter originally developed as a homebuilt kit.
A twin-radial military transport with a rear ramp and short-field design priorities.
Two related Dutch regional jets developed from the F28 lineage.
A full-length double-deck airliner built for very high passenger capacity.
A four-engine tactical transport built around a rear loading ramp and access to austere airfields.
A two-seat Tecnam high-wing aircraft combining composite and metal construction.
A heavy-lift helicopter built around an open frame and an external working load.
A two-seat training single with a high wing and fixed tricycle landing gear.
A pressurised cabin-class piston twin, from the tip-tanked 414 to the longer-wing 414A and its many aftermarket conversions.
A compact Italian light twin with a shoulder wing and metal airframe.
A six-engine flying boat created for long-distance passenger travel over water.
A low-wing piston twin that carries the Beechcraft touring-aircraft lineage into two-engine flying.
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