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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 composite, low-wing touring single with fixed gear and a turbocharged engine.
A four-seat touring family whose Commander 114 added a larger engine and further refinements.
A full-length double-deck airliner built for very high passenger capacity.
A light turbine helicopter combining an Alouette II airframe with more powerful Alouette III components.
The purpose-built Ryan monoplane used by Charles Lindbergh for his 1927 solo Atlantic crossing.
A pioneering all-metal transport with an enclosed passenger cabin and corrugated skin.
A fixed-wing observation aircraft with a helicopter-like view from its glazed nose.
A two-seat powered hang-glider trike with an open cockpit.
A tailwheel utility aircraft with a high wing and a large cabin loading door.
A long-running touring single, familiar in both V-tail and conventional-tail forms.
A streamlined twin-engine helicopter with a Fenestron tail rotor and retractable landing gear.
A compact racing aeroplane built around a large radial engine and very short fuselage.
The Huey: a turbine-powered utility helicopter with a broad cabin and an unmistakable two-bladed rotor.
A small two-seat piston helicopter with a two-bladed main rotor.
An experimental twin-boom racing aircraft commissioned by Bob Pond and designed by Burt Rutan.
A Brazilian light trainer with a high wing, tandem seats and a simple utility layout.
A two-seat composite light-aircraft family with a high wing and a compact enclosed cabin.
The JetRanger and LongRanger family: a familiar turbine-helicopter shape with distinct cabin lengths.
SOCATA's touring-aircraft family, including the Tobago and Trinidad.
A long-range trijet developed from the DC-10 with a stretched fuselage and revised wing and cockpit.
A four-bladed utility helicopter developed from the LongRanger lineage.
A tandem-seat development of Scheibe’s touring motorglider family.
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