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.
The Stationair utility family, combining a high wing with fixed landing gear.
A Brazilian light trainer with a high wing, tandem seats and a simple utility layout.
A two-seat amphibian with a flying-boat hull and a pusher engine above the cabin.
A twin-radial airliner that helped make practical passenger transport a regular business.
Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
Cirrus's first type-certified aircraft, a composite piston single.
SOCATA's touring-aircraft family, including the Tobago and Trinidad.
A fixed-gear twin turboprop with a long history in regional and remote-area transport.
The fixed-gear, six-cylinder touring branch of Piper's PA-28 family.
A lightweight short-field aircraft with a specialised wing and tall, shock-absorbing landing gear.
A single-engine utility helicopter known as the Écureuil, Squirrel and AStar.
A radial-engined utility aircraft closely associated with bush flying and float operations.
A long-range trijet developed from the DC-10 with a stretched fuselage and revised wing and cockpit.
An enclosed, two-seat autogyro with side-by-side seating and a pusher propeller.
A 1920s transport family that developed from a single-engine airliner into a trimotor.
A side-by-side touring motorglider used for both powered flying and soaring.
A huge wooden flying-boat prototype that made one brief flight in 1947.
A four-engine airliner that brought pressurised-cabin travel into scheduled service.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
The Wilga is the real-aircraft starting point for Mike Patey's DRACO and the simulator's DRACO X.
A four-seat kit-built touring aircraft that expanded the RV family beyond two-seat designs.
An amphibious turboprop designed around scooping water and delivering it to fires.
The JetRanger and LongRanger family: a familiar turbine-helicopter shape with distinct cabin lengths.
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