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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.
Piper's PA-31 utility twin, used in commuter, cargo and corporate transport.
Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
A super-midsize business jet with a swept wing, rear-mounted engines and an integrated glass cockpit.
A fixed-wing observation aircraft with a helicopter-like view from its glazed nose.
A pioneering light helicopter whose bubble cabin and exposed structure became widely recognisable.
A twin-engine business jet designed to retain some of the utility flexibility associated with the PC-12.
A vast inter-war flying boat with twelve engines arranged in six paired installations.
An early CRJ regional jet with rear-mounted engines and a small airliner flight deck.
A self-launching sailplane family with its engine inside the fuselage and a folding nose propeller.
The purpose-built Ryan monoplane used by Charles Lindbergh for his 1927 solo Atlantic crossing.
A large twin-radial transport that carried heavy loads through wartime and post-war freight service.
A radial-engine trainer that also served in combat and civilian warbird roles.
The four-engine wide-body whose raised flight deck created one of aviation's most recognisable profiles.
A five-seat composite single whose development led to the diesel DA50 RG.
A two-seat composite light-aircraft family with a high wing and a compact enclosed cabin.
A Canadian tandem-seat trainer developed after the Second World War.
Mooney's four-seat piston family, developed through many touring-aircraft variants.
A short-haul jet family that evolved through several generations of engines, wings and flight decks.
The H130 utility helicopter, descended from the AS350 and fitted with a Fenestron.
A four-seat high-wing single that spans generations of conventional instruments and glass cockpits.
The tip-tanked turbofan Learjets, combining the classic compact airframe with longer range and careers in business, military and medical flying.
A late member of the Nieuport V-strut scout family, remembered both as a First World War fighter and as an advanced trainer.
A tandem-seat light aircraft with a streamlined low-wing layout.
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