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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 fixed-gear twin turboprop with a long history in regional and remote-area transport.
A twin-radial airliner that helped make practical passenger transport a regular business.
A pressurised twin turboprop with a canard, composite airframe and rear-facing propellers.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
Cirrus's first type-certified aircraft, a composite piston single.
A flyable interpretation of Testors’ 1980s speculative stealth-fighter design.
A lightweight pusher family with an enclosed cabin and a high, braced wing.
A short-haul jet family that evolved through several generations of engines, wings and flight decks.
Mooney's four-seat piston family, developed through many touring-aircraft variants.
Tecnam's two-seat, low-wing Sierra, introduced in the early 2000s.
A modern two-seat piston helicopter designed around the training role.
SOCATA's touring-aircraft family, including the Tobago and Trinidad.
A retractable-gear touring single with an all-metal airframe and a long-lived enthusiast following.
A twin-turboprop regional airliner developed through Swedish and American industrial cooperation.
A long-range trijet developed from the DC-10 with a stretched fuselage and revised wing and cockpit.
A single-seat helicopter originally developed as a homebuilt kit.
A post-war Businessliner with a radial engine, cabin transport ambitions and tailwheel gear.
A wooden touring-aircraft family recognisable by the upward-angled outer wing panels.
A light two-seat helicopter with a side-by-side cabin and a semi-rigid main rotor.
A high-wing utility turboprop designed for short-field passenger and cargo work.
A Swedish reconnaissance and dive-bombing aircraft from the early 1940s.
A pressurised cabin-class piston twin, from the tip-tanked 414 to the longer-wing 414A and its many aftermarket conversions.
A small twin-engine amphibian that moved from business transport into military and utility service.
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