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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 1920s transport family that developed from a single-engine airliner into a trimotor.
A self-launching sailplane family with its engine inside the fuselage and a folding nose propeller.
A tailwheel utility aircraft with a high wing and a large cabin loading door.
A twin-hull flying boat with its engines mounted together above the wing.
A two-seat amphibian with a flying-boat hull and a pusher engine above the cabin.
A tandem-seat development of Scheibe’s touring motorglider family.
A small observation-helicopter family with a rounded cabin and compact rotor system.
A post-war Czech light twin with a rounded cabin and engines carried on a low wing.
The Wilga is the real-aircraft starting point for Mike Patey's DRACO and the simulator's DRACO X.
The Huey: a turbine-powered utility helicopter with a broad cabin and an unmistakable two-bladed rotor.
A tailwheel utility single built around a high wing and a substantial working cabin.
A rear-engined trijet built to bring jet service to shorter routes and smaller airports.
Grumman’s small twin-engine amphibian: a flying boat with retractable wheels and a life spanning wartime service, private travel and seaplane training.
An early CRJ regional jet with rear-mounted engines and a small airliner flight deck.
A twin-turboprop family whose smaller conventional-tail and larger T-tail branches have distinct identities.
The Mitchell medium bomber, named for aviation advocate Billy Mitchell.
A tandem two-seat sailplane family used for training and cross-country soaring.
A carrier-capable multirole fighter, larger than the earlier Hornet from which it developed.
An enclosed-cabin development of the Bell 47, shaped for passenger and executive transport.
A wide-cabin business-jet family that developed from Canadair's original Challenger programme.
A push-pull twin with one engine at each end of the central fuselage.
Embraer's regional-jet family, from the ERJ 135 to the longer ERJ 145.
A fixed-wing observation aircraft with a helicopter-like view from its glazed nose.
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