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A compact two-seat light aircraft with a high wing and a wide range of development variants.
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A compact two-seat light aircraft with a high wing and a wide range of development variants.
A small three-engine demonstrator created to explore technologies for a future supersonic airliner.
A pioneering light helicopter whose bubble cabin and exposed structure became widely recognisable.
A four-engine airliner whose history also includes long-range maritime military service.
Pipistrel's streamlined four-seat composite-aircraft design.
A side-by-side two-seat sailplane with a retractable powerplant for self-launching.
A pioneering all-metal transport with an enclosed passenger cabin and corrugated skin.
A tandem-seat autogyro prototype developed around transport and observation roles.
A tandem-seat light aircraft with a streamlined low-wing layout.
Regional flying built around a high wing, two turboprops and short sectors.
A four-engine military turboprop designed to combine tactical access with long-distance transport.
Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
A pressurised single-engine turboprop family that combines a compact cabin with retractable gear.
A four-seat high-wing single that spans generations of conventional instruments and glass cockpits.
The Wilga is the real-aircraft starting point for Mike Patey's DRACO and the simulator's DRACO X.
An experimental twin-boom racing aircraft commissioned by Bob Pond and designed by Burt Rutan.
A light two-seat helicopter with a side-by-side cabin and a semi-rigid main rotor.
A pressurised cabin-class piston twin, from the tip-tanked 414 to the longer-wing 414A and its many aftermarket conversions.
A short-haul jet family that evolved through several generations of engines, wings and flight decks.
A huge wooden flying-boat prototype that made one brief flight in 1947.
A post-war Czech light twin with a rounded cabin and engines carried on a low wing.
A light business jet with a swept wing, rear-mounted engines and an integrated flight deck.
A compact rear-engined jet designed for short-haul regional airline work.
A twin-hull flying boat with its engines mounted together above the wing.
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