Ryan NYP “Spirit of St. Louis” ↗
The purpose-built Ryan monoplane used by Charles Lindbergh for his 1927 solo Atlantic crossing.
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The purpose-built Ryan monoplane used by Charles Lindbergh for his 1927 solo Atlantic crossing.
A light business jet with a swept wing, rear-mounted engines and an integrated flight deck.
A twin-radial airliner that helped make practical passenger transport a regular business.
A six-seat composite single turboprop with a pressurised cabin and retractable gear.
An experimental twin-boom racing aircraft commissioned by Bob Pond and designed by Burt Rutan.
A long-running touring single, familiar in both V-tail and conventional-tail forms.
The four-engine Flying Fortress, a major American bomber of the Second World War.
A military transport developed from the DC-3, used for cargo, troops, parachuting and glider towing.
A two-seat composite kit aircraft developed from the Lancair 320.
A five-seat composite single whose development led to the diesel DA50 RG.
A two-seat amphibian with a flying-boat hull and a pusher engine above the cabin.
A large long-haul twin that introduced Boeing's first commercial fly-by-wire airliner flight controls.
A modern two-seat piston helicopter designed around the training role.
A shorter wide-body Airbus from the transition to two-pilot, electronic-instrument cockpits.
A push-pull twin with one engine at each end of the central fuselage.
A late-war single-seat jet fighter with its engine mounted above the fuselage.
Tecnam's four-seat high-wing single, built with metal and carbon-fibre components.
A streamlined twin-engine helicopter with a Fenestron tail rotor and retractable landing gear.
The H130 utility helicopter, descended from the AS350 and fitted with a Fenestron.
A pressurised cabin-class piston twin, from the tip-tanked 414 to the longer-wing 414A and its many aftermarket conversions.
A corrugated-metal, three-engine transport from the formative years of airline travel.
A single-engine utility helicopter known as the Écureuil, Squirrel and AStar.
A small twin-engine amphibian that moved from business transport into military and utility service.
A vast inter-war flying boat with twelve engines arranged in six paired installations.
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