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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 high-wing single that spans generations of conventional instruments and glass cockpits.
The purpose-built Ryan monoplane used by Charles Lindbergh for his 1927 solo Atlantic crossing.
A regional jet family with four small engines, a high wing and a large split tail airbrake.
A small three-engine demonstrator created to explore technologies for a future supersonic airliner.
A slender supersonic trainer with tandem seats and two small afterburning turbojets.
A four-seat piston helicopter with a two-blade main rotor and conventional tail rotor.
A compact Australian wartime fighter built around a radial engine.
A four-seat, pressurised kit aircraft with a composite airframe and retractable landing gear.
A single-seat helicopter originally developed as a homebuilt kit.
Grumman’s small twin-engine amphibian: a flying boat with retractable wheels and a life spanning wartime service, private travel and seaplane training.
A tandem-seat development of Scheibe’s touring motorglider family.
An open-cockpit biplane trainer that found a second life in civilian flying.
A very light twin jet developed from the Eclipse 500.
A long-haul twin whose family spans passenger, freight and specialist transport roles.
A late member of the Nieuport V-strut scout family, remembered both as a First World War fighter and as an advanced trainer.
A heavy transport helicopter whose two large rotors remove the need for a tail rotor.
A high-wing utility turboprop designed for short-field passenger and cargo work.
A four-engine jetliner that helped establish the shape of long-distance jet travel.
A pioneering light helicopter whose bubble cabin and exposed structure became widely recognisable.
A close-air-support aircraft with a straight wing, twin tail and two widely separated jet engines.
A twin-aisle Boeing designed alongside the 757's generation of two-pilot flight decks.
A two-seat Tecnam high-wing aircraft combining composite and metal construction.
A composite two-seat light sport aircraft with an unobstructed cantilever high wing.
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