Douglas C-47 Skytrain ↗
A military transport developed from the DC-3, used for cargo, troops, parachuting and glider towing.
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A military transport developed from the DC-3, used for cargo, troops, parachuting and glider towing.
A long-running touring single, familiar in both V-tail and conventional-tail forms.
A lightweight short-field aircraft with a specialised wing and tall, shock-absorbing landing gear.
The JetRanger and LongRanger family: a familiar turbine-helicopter shape with distinct cabin lengths.
A single-seat aerobatic monoplane that also became a familiar air-racing aircraft.
A tandem-seat autogyro prototype developed around transport and observation roles.
A pioneering light helicopter whose bubble cabin and exposed structure became widely recognisable.
The four-engine Flying Fortress, a major American bomber of the Second World War.
A corrugated-metal, three-engine transport from the formative years of airline travel.
Cessna's retractable-gear Centurion, a high-wing touring aircraft.
A vast inter-war flying boat with twelve engines arranged in six paired installations.
A family of single-aisle airliners built around sidesticks, electronic flight controls and a shared cockpit.
A very light twin jet developed from the Eclipse 500.
A tandem-seat jet trainer that also found a second life in civilian display and racing.
A twin-turboprop regional airliner developed through Swedish and American industrial cooperation.
A self-launching sailplane family with its engine inside the fuselage and a folding nose propeller.
A three-engine airliner that became a mainstay of Soviet and Russian passenger transport.
A narrow-body twin developed as a new generation of medium-range airliner.
A turbine-powered utility helicopter with a broad cabin and a long international service history.
Piper's two-seat trainer with fixed tricycle landing gear.
A pressurised regional airliner with a high wing and two Rolls-Royce Dart turboprops.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
A compact two-seat light aircraft with a high wing and a wide range of development variants.
A swept-wing business jet designed around high subsonic cruise speed.
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