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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 tandem-seat autogyro prototype developed around transport and observation roles.
The JetRanger and LongRanger family: a familiar turbine-helicopter shape with distinct cabin lengths.
The retractable member of Beechcraft’s Musketeer family: a roomy, four-cylinder travelling aircraft with an unusually large baggage door.
The tip-tanked turbofan Learjets, combining the classic compact airframe with longer range and careers in business, military and medical flying.
A tandem-seat homebuilt jet with composite construction and retractable landing gear.
A two-seat composite trainer with a low wing and a large canopy.
Cessna's retractable-gear Centurion, a high-wing touring aircraft.
A compact twin-engine transport helicopter with retractable gear and a long development history.
A tandem two-seat sailplane family used for training and cross-country soaring.
A twin-engine business jet designed to retain some of the utility flexibility associated with the PC-12.
SOCATA's touring-aircraft family, including the Tobago and Trinidad.
Lockheed's wide-body TriStar, with three RB211 engines and a distinctive tail intake.
A very light twin jet developed from the Eclipse 500.
A pressurised four-engine piston transport from the last major generation before the jet airliner.
A pressurised regional airliner with a high wing and two Rolls-Royce Dart turboprops.
A long-range twin whose programme emphasised composite construction and more electrically powered systems.
A purpose-built aerobatic monoplane family developed by pilot and designer Walter Extra.
A late member of the Nieuport V-strut scout family, remembered both as a First World War fighter and as an advanced trainer.
A post-war Businessliner with a radial engine, cabin transport ambitions and tailwheel gear.
A French two-seat aerobatic trainer with side-by-side seating and a distinctive curved wing outline.
A composite amphibian that carries Dornier's centreline engine arrangement into the turboprop era.
A five-seat composite single whose development led to the diesel DA50 RG.
A four-engine jetliner that helped establish the shape of long-distance jet travel.
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