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Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
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Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
The Huey: a turbine-powered utility helicopter with a broad cabin and an unmistakable two-bladed rotor.
An electric-powered educational glider concept inspired by the human-powered MIT Daedalus 88.
A box-shaped utility twin whose cabin and rear access are central to its design.
A two-seat amphibian with a flying-boat hull and a pusher engine above the cabin.
A small three-engine demonstrator created to explore technologies for a future supersonic airliner.
A First World War trainer that became a familiar sight in the barnstorming era.
A pioneering all-metal transport with an enclosed passenger cabin and corrugated skin.
A four-engine airliner whose history also includes long-range maritime military service.
Airbus's first production aircraft, built around a twin-engine wide-body layout.
A small open gyroplane with an unpowered rotor and pusher propulsion.
A twin-engine business jet designed to retain some of the utility flexibility associated with the PC-12.
The JetRanger and LongRanger family: a familiar turbine-helicopter shape with distinct cabin lengths.
A tandem-seat development of Scheibe’s touring motorglider family.
A tandem-seat jet trainer that also found a second life in civilian display and racing.
A small twin-engine amphibian that moved from business transport into military and utility service.
The four-engine wide-body whose raised flight deck created one of aviation's most recognisable profiles.
A single-seat helicopter originally developed as a homebuilt kit.
Ted Smith's piston twin, later produced by Piper as the Aerostar.
The tip-tanked turbofan Learjets, combining the classic compact airframe with longer range and careers in business, military and medical flying.
A compact Italian light twin with a shoulder wing and metal airframe.
A compact aerobatic biplane family with both single-seat and tandem-seat branches.
An unpowered military cargo glider designed to deliver troops and equipment behind a tow aircraft.
A push-pull twin with one engine at each end of the central fuselage.
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