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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 twin-turboprop family whose smaller conventional-tail and larger T-tail branches have distinct identities.
A pressurised twin turboprop with a canard, composite airframe and rear-facing propellers.
A six-engine heavy transport created for exceptionally large external and internal loads.
A military liaison aircraft built around a high wing, tandem cabin and short-field utility work.
A First World War trainer that became a familiar sight in the barnstorming era.
A compact Italian light twin with a shoulder wing and metal airframe.
The JetRanger and LongRanger family: a familiar turbine-helicopter shape with distinct cabin lengths.
The Mitchell medium bomber, named for aviation advocate Billy Mitchell.
The H130 utility helicopter, descended from the AS350 and fitted with a Fenestron.
A wooden touring-aircraft family recognisable by the upward-angled outer wing panels.
An advanced trainer known around the world as the Texan, Harvard and SNJ.
Piper's two-seat trainer with fixed tricycle landing gear.
A late-1930s cabin aircraft with metal construction and retractable landing gear.
Pipistrel's streamlined four-seat composite-aircraft design.
A long-range trijet developed from the DC-10 with a stretched fuselage and revised wing and cockpit.
A long-range twin whose programme emphasised composite construction and more electrically powered systems.
A retractable-gear touring single with an all-metal airframe and a long-lived enthusiast following.
A twin-turbine Huey descendant with a four-blade main rotor.
A small observation-helicopter family with a rounded cabin and compact rotor system.
Lockheed's tandem-seat Shooting Star jet trainer.
A short-haul jet family that evolved through several generations of engines, wings and flight decks.
A regional turboprop family whose short early versions and larger Q400 have different proportions and systems.
A pioneering light helicopter whose bubble cabin and exposed structure became widely recognisable.
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