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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.
The four-engine wide-body whose raised flight deck created one of aviation's most recognisable profiles.
A two-seat Tecnam high-wing aircraft combining composite and metal construction.
Lockheed's wide-body TriStar, with three RB211 engines and a distinctive tail intake.
A side-by-side two-seat sailplane with a retractable powerplant for self-launching.
A small open gyroplane with an unpowered rotor and pusher propulsion.
A long-range twin whose programme emphasised composite construction and more electrically powered systems.
The tip-tanked turbofan Learjets, combining the classic compact airframe with longer range and careers in business, military and medical flying.
A corrugated-metal transport best known in its three-engine form.
A pressurised cabin-class piston twin, from the tip-tanked 414 to the longer-wing 414A and its many aftermarket conversions.
A vast inter-war flying boat with twelve engines arranged in six paired installations.
Dassault's long-range Falcon 8X, developed from the three-engine 7X.
A two-seat light aircraft with folding wings and a choice of nosewheel or tailwheel gear.
A long-haul twin whose family spans passenger, freight and specialist transport roles.
A four-bladed utility helicopter developed from the LongRanger lineage.
A late-war single-seat jet fighter with its engine mounted above the fuselage.
A retractable-gear touring single with an all-metal airframe and a long-lived enthusiast following.
An advanced trainer known around the world as the Texan, Harvard and SNJ.
A carrier-capable multirole fighter, larger than the earlier Hornet from which it developed.
A compact Italian light twin with a shoulder wing and metal airframe.
Cirrus's first type-certified aircraft, a composite piston single.
A tandem-seat development of Scheibe’s touring motorglider family.
A large long-haul twin that introduced Boeing's first commercial fly-by-wire airliner flight controls.
A compact rear-engined jet designed for short-haul regional airline work.
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