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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 small three-engine demonstrator created to explore technologies for a future supersonic airliner.
The Mitchell medium bomber, named for aviation advocate Billy Mitchell.
A high-wing utility turboprop designed for short-field passenger and cargo work.
A side-by-side military trainer with a low wing and fixed tricycle landing gear.
A wartime fighter developed from the earlier Curtiss P-36.
A family of single-aisle airliners built around sidesticks, electronic flight controls and a shared cockpit.
A radial-engined utility aircraft closely associated with bush flying and float operations.
A post-war Czech light twin with a rounded cabin and engines carried on a low wing.
A pressurised four-engine piston transport from the last major generation before the jet airliner.
A two-seat light amphibian with a compact boat hull and a pusher propeller.
Dassault's long-range Falcon 8X, developed from the three-engine 7X.
A light tandem-seat taildragger built around the familiar braced high-wing layout.
A four-engine airliner whose history also includes long-range maritime military service.
A tandem-seat homebuilt jet with composite construction and retractable landing gear.
A tandem-seat development of Scheibe’s touring motorglider family.
An advanced trainer known around the world as the Texan, Harvard and SNJ.
A tandem-seat autogyro prototype developed around transport and observation roles.
A twin-radial military transport with a rear ramp and short-field design priorities.
A large amphibious flying boat built around maritime rescue and utility transport.
A shorter wide-body Airbus from the transition to two-pilot, electronic-instrument cockpits.
A tailwheel utility aircraft with a high wing and a large cabin loading door.
A low-wing agricultural Cessna with a cockpit and hopper arranged around the job.
Grumman’s small twin-engine amphibian: a flying boat with retractable wheels and a life spanning wartime service, private travel and seaplane training.
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