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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 lightweight pusher family with an enclosed cabin and a high, braced wing.
A First World War trainer that became a familiar sight in the barnstorming era.
A small observation-helicopter family with a rounded cabin and compact rotor system.
The CJ4 belongs to Cessna's light-jet line, with two rear-mounted engines and a T-tail.
Airbus's first production aircraft, built around a twin-engine wide-body layout.
A super-midsize business jet with a swept wing, rear-mounted engines and an integrated glass cockpit.
The four-engine Flying Fortress, a major American bomber of the Second World War.
A post-war Businessliner with a radial engine, cabin transport ambitions and tailwheel gear.
An amphibious turboprop designed around scooping water and delivering it to fires.
A DC-10-derived tanker that combined aerial refuelling with passenger and cargo transport.
The fixed-gear, six-cylinder touring branch of Piper's PA-28 family.
An open-cockpit biplane trainer that found a second life in civilian flying.
A small open gyroplane with an unpowered rotor and pusher propulsion.
A light turbine helicopter whose land-based Scout and naval Wasp branches served different jobs.
A modern composite twin with a roomy cabin and two wing-mounted piston engines.
The Mitchell medium bomber, named for aviation advocate Billy Mitchell.
A light tandem-seat taildragger built around the familiar braced high-wing layout.
A corrugated-metal, three-engine transport from the formative years of airline travel.
Ted Smith's piston twin, later produced by Piper as the Aerostar.
A twin-engine business jet designed to retain some of the utility flexibility associated with the PC-12.
The purpose-built Ryan monoplane used by Charles Lindbergh for his 1927 solo Atlantic crossing.
A tandem-seat homebuilt jet with composite construction and retractable landing gear.
A stretched development of the DC-9 with rear-mounted engines and a five-abreast cabin.
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