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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 streamlined twin-engine helicopter with a Fenestron tail rotor and retractable landing gear.
A Polish utility aircraft designed for short takeoffs and landings.
An experimental French helicopter with two coaxial, counter-rotating rotors.
A pressurised regional airliner with a high wing and two Rolls-Royce Dart turboprops.
A modern open-cockpit light aircraft that revives the corrugated-metal style of the 1929 A50.
A two-seat light amphibian with a compact boat hull and a pusher propeller.
A long-running touring single, familiar in both V-tail and conventional-tail forms.
The four-engine wide-body whose raised flight deck created one of aviation's most recognisable profiles.
A long-range twin designed around a new wide-body airframe and extensive composite construction.
A two-seat touring motorglider with interchangeable wing tips.
A retractable-gear touring single with an all-metal airframe and a long-lived enthusiast following.
An enclosed-cabin development of the Bell 47, shaped for passenger and executive transport.
A corrugated-metal, three-engine transport from the formative years of airline travel.
A composite amphibian that carries Dornier's centreline engine arrangement into the turboprop era.
A purpose-built agricultural aircraft that also became a single-engine air tanker.
A large twin-radial transport that carried heavy loads through wartime and post-war freight service.
A late member of the Nieuport V-strut scout family, remembered both as a First World War fighter and as an advanced trainer.
A pioneering light helicopter whose bubble cabin and exposed structure became widely recognisable.
A military liaison aircraft built around a high wing, tandem cabin and short-field utility work.
A British jet trainer with tandem seating and a long military training career.
A light turbine helicopter combining an Alouette II airframe with more powerful Alouette III components.
A compact Japanese twin turboprop with a high wing and pressurised cabin.
A pressurised single-engine turboprop family that combines a compact cabin with retractable gear.
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