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Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
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Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
A low-wing piston family that spans simple trainers, touring aircraft and retractable-gear Arrows.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
A late member of the Nieuport V-strut scout family, remembered both as a First World War fighter and as an advanced trainer.
A four-engine airliner whose history also includes long-range maritime military service.
A tandem two-seat sailplane designed for instruction and broader soaring use.
A DC-10-derived tanker that combined aerial refuelling with passenger and cargo transport.
A pioneering all-metal transport with an enclosed passenger cabin and corrugated skin.
A two-seat powered hang-glider trike with an open cockpit.
A compact twin-engine transport helicopter with retractable gear and a long development history.
A pressurised twin turboprop with a canard, composite airframe and rear-facing propellers.
A 1920s flying boat with two engines arranged in tandem above the wing.
Ted Smith's piston twin, later produced by Piper as the Aerostar.
A tandem-seat development of Scheibe’s touring motorglider family.
Regional flying built around a high wing, two turboprops and short sectors.
A single-engine utility helicopter known as the Écureuil, Squirrel and AStar.
A compact Australian wartime fighter built around a radial engine.
Piper's two-seat trainer with fixed tricycle landing gear.
A small observation-helicopter family with a rounded cabin and compact rotor system.
A long-range fighter whose different engine and canopy developments produced several distinct forms.
A compact utility helicopter distinguished by its enclosed Fenestron tail rotor.
An enclosed, two-seat autogyro with side-by-side seating and a pusher propeller.
A twin-radial military transport with a rear ramp and short-field design priorities.
A radial-engined utility aircraft closely associated with bush flying and float operations.
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