Piper Comanche ↗
A retractable-gear touring single with an all-metal airframe and a long-lived enthusiast following.
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A retractable-gear touring single with an all-metal airframe and a long-lived enthusiast following.
A four-engine airliner whose history also includes long-range maritime military service.
A fixed-gear twin turboprop with a long history in regional and remote-area transport.
A family of single-aisle airliners built around sidesticks, electronic flight controls and a shared cockpit.
A twin-hull flying boat with its engines mounted together above the wing.
A compact Australian wartime fighter built around a radial engine.
A two-seat amphibian with a flying-boat hull and a pusher engine above the cabin.
A small three-engine demonstrator created to explore technologies for a future supersonic airliner.
A four-engine jetliner that helped establish the shape of long-distance jet travel.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
The tip-tanked turbofan Learjets, combining the classic compact airframe with longer range and careers in business, military and medical flying.
Lockheed's tandem-seat Shooting Star jet trainer.
A twin-turbine Huey descendant with a four-blade main rotor.
A Swedish reconnaissance and dive-bombing aircraft from the early 1940s.
A purpose-built aerobatic monoplane family developed by pilot and designer Walter Extra.
A shorter wide-body Airbus from the transition to two-pilot, electronic-instrument cockpits.
A compact Italian light twin with a shoulder wing and metal airframe.
The retractable member of Beechcraft’s Musketeer family: a roomy, four-cylinder travelling aircraft with an unusually large baggage door.
A lightweight short-field aircraft with a specialised wing and tall, shock-absorbing landing gear.
A personal jet with one engine above the rear fuselage and a distinctive V-tail.
A French two-seat aerobatic trainer with side-by-side seating and a distinctive curved wing outline.
A light tandem-seat taildragger built around the familiar braced high-wing layout.
A close-air-support aircraft with a straight wing, twin tail and two widely separated jet engines.
A twin-radial airliner that helped make practical passenger transport a regular business.
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