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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.
An early CRJ regional jet with rear-mounted engines and a small airliner flight deck.
A single-seat helicopter originally developed as a homebuilt kit.
A personal jet with one engine above the rear fuselage and a distinctive V-tail.
A shorter wide-body Airbus from the transition to two-pilot, electronic-instrument cockpits.
A huge wooden flying-boat prototype that made one brief flight in 1947.
A Brazilian light trainer with a high wing, tandem seats and a simple utility layout.
A three-engine airliner that became a mainstay of Soviet and Russian passenger transport.
A small three-engine demonstrator created to explore technologies for a future supersonic airliner.
A short-haul jet family that evolved through several generations of engines, wings and flight decks.
A vast inter-war flying boat with twelve engines arranged in six paired installations.
The retractable member of Beechcraft’s Musketeer family: a roomy, four-cylinder travelling aircraft with an unusually large baggage door.
A medium commercial helicopter designed for passenger and utility transport.
The tip-tanked turbofan Learjets, combining the classic compact airframe with longer range and careers in business, military and medical flying.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
A two-seat light aircraft with folding wings and a choice of nosewheel or tailwheel gear.
A streamlined light twin helicopter, with the later Bell 230 in the same family.
A Hungarian two-seat light helicopter powered by a Rotax 915 iS.
A fixed-wing observation aircraft with a helicopter-like view from its glazed nose.
A DC-10-derived tanker that combined aerial refuelling with passenger and cargo transport.
A four-engine airliner that brought pressurised-cabin travel into scheduled service.
Grumman’s small twin-engine amphibian: a flying boat with retractable wheels and a life spanning wartime service, private travel and seaplane training.
A tailwheel utility single built around a high wing and a substantial working cabin.
A purpose-built aerobatic monoplane family developed by pilot and designer Walter Extra.
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