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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 four-engine airliner that brought pressurised-cabin travel into scheduled service.
A modern utility single whose family includes both tailwheel and nosewheel configurations.
A small observation-helicopter family with a rounded cabin and compact rotor system.
A tandem-seat jet trainer that also found a second life in civilian display and racing.
A two-seat naval fighter with variable-sweep wings and a cockpit built around pilot and radar-intercept officer roles.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
A four-seat composite touring and training aircraft developed from Diamond's smaller two-seater.
A late member of the Nieuport V-strut scout family, remembered both as a First World War fighter and as an advanced trainer.
A super-midsize business jet with a swept wing, rear-mounted engines and an integrated glass cockpit.
A side-by-side touring motorglider used for both powered flying and soaring.
A streamlined light twin helicopter, with the later Bell 230 in the same family.
Two related Dutch regional jets developed from the F28 lineage.
A light turbine helicopter combining an Alouette II airframe with more powerful Alouette III components.
Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
A tandem two-seat sailplane family used for training and cross-country soaring.
A British jet trainer with tandem seating and a long military training career.
A military liaison aircraft built around a high wing, tandem cabin and short-field utility work.
A rear-engined trijet built to bring jet service to shorter routes and smaller airports.
A light turbine helicopter whose land-based Scout and naval Wasp branches served different jobs.
A light tandem-seat taildragger built around the familiar braced high-wing layout.
A high-wing utility turboprop designed for short-field passenger and cargo work.
A four-seat piston helicopter with a two-blade main rotor and conventional tail rotor.
A four-engine airliner whose history also includes long-range maritime military service.
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