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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 four-seat kit-built touring aircraft that expanded the RV family beyond two-seat designs.
A tandem-seat homebuilt jet with composite construction and retractable landing gear.
The retractable member of Beechcraft’s Musketeer family: a roomy, four-cylinder travelling aircraft with an unusually large baggage door.
A narrow-body twin developed as a new generation of medium-range airliner.
A tandem two-seat sailplane designed for instruction and broader soaring use.
A twin-hull flying boat with its engines mounted together above the wing.
A single-seat helicopter originally developed as a homebuilt kit.
A modern open-cockpit light aircraft that revives the corrugated-metal style of the 1929 A50.
A tandem-seat jet trainer that also found a second life in civilian display and racing.
A very light twin jet developed from the Eclipse 500.
A composite amphibian that carries Dornier's centreline engine arrangement into the turboprop era.
A two-seat composite kit aircraft developed from the Lancair 320.
A four-seat composite touring and training aircraft developed from Diamond's smaller two-seater.
An experimental twin-boom racing aircraft commissioned by Bob Pond and designed by Burt Rutan.
A high-wing twin turboprop developed for regional freight and passenger transport.
A five-seat composite single whose development led to the diesel DA50 RG.
A light turbine helicopter whose land-based Scout and naval Wasp branches served different jobs.
Airbus's first production aircraft, built around a twin-engine wide-body layout.
A wide-cabin business-jet family that developed from Canadair's original Challenger programme.
A composite touring single with a whole-aircraft parachute and several generations of avionics.
A late-1930s cabin aircraft with metal construction and retractable landing gear.
A three-engine airliner that became a mainstay of Soviet and Russian passenger transport.
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