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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.
Ted Smith's piston twin, later produced by Piper as the Aerostar.
The four-engine wide-body whose raised flight deck created one of aviation's most recognisable profiles.
A two-seat touring motorglider with interchangeable wing tips.
A large long-haul twin that introduced Boeing's first commercial fly-by-wire airliner flight controls.
The turboprop-powered member of Beechcraft’s tandem-seat Mentor training family.
Cirrus's first type-certified aircraft, a composite piston single.
A 1920s transport family that developed from a single-engine airliner into a trimotor.
A four-bladed utility helicopter developed from the LongRanger lineage.
A stretched development of the DC-9 with rear-mounted engines and a five-abreast cabin.
A powered hang-glider wing above an amphibious inflatable boat.
A military transport developed from the DC-3, used for cargo, troops, parachuting and glider towing.
An early CRJ regional jet with rear-mounted engines and a small airliner flight deck.
A swept-wing business jet designed around high subsonic cruise speed.
A twin-turboprop utility aircraft developed by Reims Aviation with Cessna.
A four-engine airliner that brought pressurised-cabin travel into scheduled service.
Piper's two-seat trainer with fixed tricycle landing gear.
A compact Czech touring aircraft with side-by-side seats and a streamlined low-wing airframe.
A two-seat naval fighter with variable-sweep wings and a cockpit built around pilot and radar-intercept officer roles.
A corrugated-metal transport best known in its three-engine form.
A post-war Businessliner with a radial engine, cabin transport ambitions and tailwheel gear.
A modern utility single whose family includes both tailwheel and nosewheel configurations.
A wide-cabin business-jet family that developed from Canadair's original Challenger programme.
An open, single-seat ultralight with its propeller behind the pilot.
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