Hughes H-4 Hercules ↗
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-engine jetliner that helped establish the shape of long-distance jet travel.
A jet-powered military transport designed for both strategic loads and tactical airfield access.
A compact racing aeroplane built around a large radial engine and very short fuselage.
A single-seat competition sailplane offered in Standard and 18-metre configurations.
Dassault's long-range Falcon 8X, developed from the three-engine 7X.
A lightweight short-field aircraft with a specialised wing and tall, shock-absorbing landing gear.
A compact Japanese twin turboprop with a high wing and pressurised cabin.
A two-seat amphibian with a flying-boat hull and a pusher engine above the cabin.
A modern open-cockpit light aircraft that revives the corrugated-metal style of the 1929 A50.
A pressurised four-engine piston transport from the last major generation before the jet airliner.
A large long-haul twin that introduced Boeing's first commercial fly-by-wire airliner flight controls.
A pressurised cabin-class piston twin, from the tip-tanked 414 to the longer-wing 414A and its many aftermarket conversions.
Grumman’s small twin-engine amphibian: a flying boat with retractable wheels and a life spanning wartime service, private travel and seaplane training.
A pressurised regional airliner with a high wing and two Rolls-Royce Dart turboprops.
A tandem-seat utility aircraft whose light structure and high wing suit bush, towing and recreational work.
A streamlined light twin helicopter, with the later Bell 230 in the same family.
A twin-engine business jet designed to retain some of the utility flexibility associated with the PC-12.
A post-war Businessliner with a radial engine, cabin transport ambitions and tailwheel gear.
A long-haul twin whose family spans passenger, freight and specialist transport roles.
A four-engine Airbus wide-body developed in parallel with the A330.
A self-launching sailplane family with its engine inside the fuselage and a folding nose propeller.
A four-seat, pressurised kit aircraft with a composite airframe and retractable landing gear.
A fixed-gear twin turboprop with a long history in regional and remote-area transport.
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