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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 twin-engine business jet designed to retain some of the utility flexibility associated with the PC-12.
A twin-turboprop regional airliner developed through Swedish and American industrial cooperation.
A compact racing aeroplane built around a large radial engine and very short fuselage.
The tip-tanked turbofan Learjets, combining the classic compact airframe with longer range and careers in business, military and medical flying.
A streamlined twin-engine helicopter with a Fenestron tail rotor and retractable landing gear.
A small three-engine demonstrator created to explore technologies for a future supersonic airliner.
The purpose-built Ryan monoplane used by Charles Lindbergh for his 1927 solo Atlantic crossing.
A British utility twin built around short regional and practical transport work.
A long-haul twin whose family spans passenger, freight and specialist transport roles.
An open-cockpit biplane trainer that found a second life in civilian flying.
An experimental French helicopter with two coaxial, counter-rotating rotors.
A six-engine heavy transport created for exceptionally large external and internal loads.
A self-launching sailplane family with its engine inside the fuselage and a folding nose propeller.
RotorWay's two-seat kit-helicopter family, with piston and turbine simulator interpretations.
A two-seat composite trainer with a low wing and a large canopy.
The fixed-gear, six-cylinder touring branch of Piper's PA-28 family.
A two-seat Tecnam high-wing aircraft combining composite and metal construction.
A carbon-fibre aerobatic monoplane family with a dedicated air-racing branch.
Tecnam's two-seat, low-wing Sierra, introduced in the early 2000s.
The Mitchell medium bomber, named for aviation advocate Billy Mitchell.
A single-engine utility helicopter known as the Écureuil, Squirrel and AStar.
A five-seat composite single whose development led to the diesel DA50 RG.
A purpose-built aerobatic monoplane family developed by pilot and designer Walter Extra.
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