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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.
A short-haul jet family that evolved through several generations of engines, wings and flight decks.
A self-launching sailplane family with its engine inside the fuselage and a folding nose propeller.
A light two-seat helicopter with a side-by-side cabin and a semi-rigid main rotor.
Grumman’s small twin-engine amphibian: a flying boat with retractable wheels and a life spanning wartime service, private travel and seaplane training.
An electric-powered educational glider concept inspired by the human-powered MIT Daedalus 88.
A high-wing light sport aircraft with a broad glazed cabin and tricycle landing gear.
A large twin-radial transport that carried heavy loads through wartime and post-war freight service.
A small open gyroplane with an unpowered rotor and pusher propulsion.
A huge wooden flying-boat prototype that made one brief flight in 1947.
A small two-seat piston helicopter with a two-bladed main rotor.
A compact utility helicopter distinguished by its enclosed Fenestron tail rotor.
A post-war Czech light twin with a rounded cabin and engines carried on a low wing.
A heavy transport helicopter whose two large rotors remove the need for a tail rotor.
A cabin biplane with the lower wing placed ahead of the upper one.
A low-wing agricultural Cessna with a cockpit and hopper arranged around the job.
A compact twin-engine transport helicopter with retractable gear and a long development history.
A small twin-engine amphibian that moved from business transport into military and utility service.
An unpowered military cargo glider designed to deliver troops and equipment behind a tow aircraft.
A medium commercial helicopter designed for passenger and utility transport.
An open, single-seat ultralight with its propeller behind the pilot.
A two-seat composite trainer with a low wing and a large canopy.
A jet-powered military transport designed for both strategic loads and tactical airfield access.
The Mitchell medium bomber, named for aviation advocate Billy Mitchell.
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