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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 pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
Piper's two-seat trainer with fixed tricycle landing gear.
A slender supersonic trainer with tandem seats and two small afterburning turbojets.
A compact regional turboprop with a pressurised cabin for up to 19 passengers.
A wooden touring-aircraft family recognisable by the upward-angled outer wing panels.
A low-wing piston family that spans simple trainers, touring aircraft and retractable-gear Arrows.
A purpose-built agricultural aircraft that also became a single-engine air tanker.
TorqueSim's Pocket Rocket, a simulated PT6-powered light aircraft with two gear layouts.
A single-engine turboprop workhorse for passenger services, freight and remote-area transport.
A tandem-seat canard homebuilt with a pusher engine and distinctive winglets.
The purpose-built Ryan monoplane used by Charles Lindbergh for his 1927 solo Atlantic crossing.
Beechcraft's Model 76, designed to introduce pilots to twin-engine flying.
A side-by-side two-seat sailplane with a retractable powerplant for self-launching.
Mooney's four-seat piston family, developed through many touring-aircraft variants.
A four-seat touring family whose Commander 114 added a larger engine and further refinements.
The tip-tanked turbofan Learjets, combining the classic compact airframe with longer range and careers in business, military and medical flying.
A rear-engined trijet built to bring jet service to shorter routes and smaller airports.
The JetRanger and LongRanger family: a familiar turbine-helicopter shape with distinct cabin lengths.
Lockheed's wide-body TriStar, with three RB211 engines and a distinctive tail intake.
A Swedish reconnaissance and dive-bombing aircraft from the early 1940s.
A self-launching sailplane family with its engine inside the fuselage and a folding nose propeller.
A two-seat light amphibian with a compact boat hull and a pusher propeller.
A fixed-wing observation aircraft with a helicopter-like view from its glazed nose.
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