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Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
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Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
Piper's two-seat trainer with fixed tricycle landing gear.
A shorter wide-body Airbus from the transition to two-pilot, electronic-instrument cockpits.
A four-engine tactical transport built around a rear loading ramp and access to austere airfields.
A tailwheel utility single built around a high wing and a substantial working cabin.
A twin-turboprop utility aircraft developed by Reims Aviation with Cessna.
A compact twin-engine transport helicopter with retractable gear and a long development history.
A twin-turboprop family whose smaller conventional-tail and larger T-tail branches have distinct identities.
A military liaison aircraft built around a high wing, tandem cabin and short-field utility work.
A twin-engine utility helicopter with roots in the BK 117 and EC145 families.
A pressurised cabin-class piston twin, from the tip-tanked 414 to the longer-wing 414A and its many aftermarket conversions.
A composite amphibian that carries Dornier's centreline engine arrangement into the turboprop era.
A purpose-built agricultural aircraft that also became a single-engine air tanker.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
A long-range trijet developed from the DC-10 with a stretched fuselage and revised wing and cockpit.
A two-seat light aircraft with folding wings and a choice of nosewheel or tailwheel gear.
Lockheed's tandem-seat Shooting Star jet trainer.
A two-seat training single with a high wing and fixed tricycle landing gear.
An amphibious turboprop designed around scooping water and delivering it to fires.
A heavy-lift helicopter built around an open frame and an external working load.
A fixed-wing observation aircraft with a helicopter-like view from its glazed nose.
Cessna's unusual piston-powered helicopter, marketed as the Skyhook.
A single-engine utility helicopter known as the Écureuil, Squirrel and AStar.
A light business jet with a swept wing, rear-mounted engines and an integrated flight deck.
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