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A pioneering light helicopter whose bubble cabin and exposed structure became widely recognisable.
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A pioneering light helicopter whose bubble cabin and exposed structure became widely recognisable.
A small open gyroplane with an unpowered rotor and pusher propulsion.
A high-wing twin turboprop developed for regional freight and passenger transport.
A large amphibious flying boat built around maritime rescue and utility transport.
A late-1930s cabin aircraft with metal construction and retractable landing gear.
A late member of the Nieuport V-strut scout family, remembered both as a First World War fighter and as an advanced trainer.
A heavy-lift helicopter built around an open frame and an external working load.
The purpose-built Ryan monoplane used by Charles Lindbergh for his 1927 solo Atlantic crossing.
An amphibious turboprop designed around scooping water and delivering it to fires.
A low-wing piston twin that carries the Beechcraft touring-aircraft lineage into two-engine flying.
Grumman’s small twin-engine amphibian: a flying boat with retractable wheels and a life spanning wartime service, private travel and seaplane training.
An open-cockpit biplane trainer that found a second life in civilian flying.
Tecnam's four-seat high-wing single, built with metal and carbon-fibre components.
A six-seat composite single turboprop with a pressurised cabin and retractable gear.
Ted Smith's piston twin, later produced by Piper as the Aerostar.
A DC-10-derived tanker that combined aerial refuelling with passenger and cargo transport.
A twin-turbine Huey descendant with a four-blade main rotor.
Cessna's unusual piston-powered helicopter, marketed as the Skyhook.
A light amphibian with a hull, retractable wheels and a pusher propeller.
A side-by-side touring motorglider used for both powered flying and soaring.
A compact aerobatic biplane family with both single-seat and tandem-seat branches.
A self-launching sailplane family with its engine inside the fuselage and a folding nose propeller.
A slender supersonic trainer with tandem seats and two small afterburning turbojets.
A compact two-seat light aircraft with a high wing and a wide range of development variants.
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