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A pioneering light helicopter whose bubble cabin and exposed structure became widely recognisable.
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A pioneering light helicopter whose bubble cabin and exposed structure became widely recognisable.
A pressurised four-engine piston transport from the last major generation before the jet airliner.
A huge wooden flying-boat prototype that made one brief flight in 1947.
A twin-turboprop family whose smaller conventional-tail and larger T-tail branches have distinct identities.
A late-1930s cabin aircraft with metal construction and retractable landing gear.
A compact rear-engined jet designed for short-haul regional airline work.
A two-seat composite trainer with a low wing and a large canopy.
The Wilga is the real-aircraft starting point for Mike Patey's DRACO and the simulator's DRACO X.
A military transport developed from the DC-3, used for cargo, troops, parachuting and glider towing.
A Polish utility aircraft designed for short takeoffs and landings.
A wide-cabin business-jet family that developed from Canadair's original Challenger programme.
Grumman’s small twin-engine amphibian: a flying boat with retractable wheels and a life spanning wartime service, private travel and seaplane training.
A very large single-engine biplane designed for practical work from modest airfields.
A lightweight short-field aircraft with a specialised wing and tall, shock-absorbing landing gear.
A heavy transport helicopter whose two large rotors remove the need for a tail rotor.
An experimental French helicopter with two coaxial, counter-rotating rotors.
Cessna's retractable-gear Centurion, a high-wing touring aircraft.
An amphibious turboprop designed around scooping water and delivering it to fires.
A wartime fighter developed from the earlier Curtiss P-36.
The Model 525 CitationJet, the starting point of Cessna's CJ and M2 lineage.
A two-seat composite light-aircraft family with a high wing and a compact enclosed cabin.
A high-wing utility turboprop designed for short-field passenger and cargo work.
A four-bladed utility helicopter developed from the LongRanger lineage.
A long-range twin designed around a new wide-body airframe and extensive composite construction.
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