Lockheed SR-71 ↗
A specialised reconnaissance aircraft designed for very high altitude and sustained supersonic flight.
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A specialised reconnaissance aircraft designed for very high altitude and sustained supersonic flight.
A tandem two-seat sailplane designed for instruction and broader soaring use.
A long-range twin whose programme emphasised composite construction and more electrically powered systems.
A tandem-seat jet trainer that also found a second life in civilian display and racing.
A composite touring single with a whole-aircraft parachute and several generations of avionics.
Cessna's retractable-gear Centurion, a high-wing touring aircraft.
The Huey: a turbine-powered utility helicopter with a broad cabin and an unmistakable two-bladed rotor.
The purpose-built Ryan monoplane used by Charles Lindbergh for his 1927 solo Atlantic crossing.
A 1920s flying boat with two engines arranged in tandem above the wing.
A pioneering all-metal transport with an enclosed passenger cabin and corrugated skin.
A compact utility helicopter distinguished by its enclosed Fenestron tail rotor.
A cabin biplane with the lower wing placed ahead of the upper one.
An experimental twin-boom racing aircraft commissioned by Bob Pond and designed by Burt Rutan.
A Belgian light helicopter with two seats arranged side by side.
A post-war Czech light twin with a rounded cabin and engines carried on a low wing.
A four-engine airliner whose history also includes long-range maritime military service.
A four-abreast regional-jet family spanning the E170, E175, E190 and E195.
A self-launching sailplane family with its engine inside the fuselage and a folding nose propeller.
A two-seat amphibian with a flying-boat hull and a pusher engine above the cabin.
An all-metal sport and touring aircraft from Bayerische Flugzeugwerke.
An advanced trainer known around the world as the Texan, Harvard and SNJ.
A fixed-wing observation aircraft with a helicopter-like view from its glazed nose.
Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
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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