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A huge wooden flying-boat prototype that made one brief flight in 1947.
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A huge wooden flying-boat prototype that made one brief flight in 1947.
A pioneering all-metal transport with an enclosed passenger cabin and corrugated skin.
A radial-engine trainer that also served in combat and civilian warbird roles.
A post-war Czech light twin with a rounded cabin and engines carried on a low wing.
A light turbine helicopter combining an Alouette II airframe with more powerful Alouette III components.
A high-wing twin turboprop developed for regional freight and passenger transport.
Pipistrel's streamlined four-seat composite-aircraft design.
A composite amphibian that carries Dornier's centreline engine arrangement into the turboprop era.
A twin-turboprop utility aircraft developed by Reims Aviation with Cessna.
A four-seat, pressurised kit aircraft with a composite airframe and retractable landing gear.
A pioneering light helicopter whose bubble cabin and exposed structure became widely recognisable.
A midsize business jet developed by Bombardier’s Learjet division.
A purpose-built agricultural aircraft that also became a single-engine air tanker.
A long-range twin whose programme emphasised composite construction and more electrically powered systems.
A four-engine airliner whose history also includes long-range maritime military service.
The JetRanger and LongRanger family: a familiar turbine-helicopter shape with distinct cabin lengths.
A small observation-helicopter family with a rounded cabin and compact rotor system.
A corrugated-metal transport best known in its three-engine form.
A twin-turboprop family whose smaller conventional-tail and larger T-tail branches have distinct identities.
The four-engine Flying Fortress, a major American bomber of the Second World War.
A compact rear-engined jet designed for short-haul regional airline work.
A large amphibious flying boat built around maritime rescue and utility transport.
A single-seat aerobatic monoplane that also became a familiar air-racing aircraft.
An enclosed-cabin development of the Bell 47, shaped for passenger and executive transport.
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