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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.
An experimental twin-boom racing aircraft commissioned by Bob Pond and designed by Burt Rutan.
A four-abreast regional-jet family spanning the E170, E175, E190 and E195.
A light turbine helicopter combining an Alouette II airframe with more powerful Alouette III components.
A carrier-capable multirole fighter, larger than the earlier Hornet from which it developed.
A close-air-support aircraft with a straight wing, twin tail and two widely separated jet engines.
A high-wing twin turboprop developed for regional freight and passenger transport.
Piper's PA-31 utility twin, used in commuter, cargo and corporate transport.
A tandem-seat homebuilt jet with composite construction and retractable landing gear.
The Mitchell medium bomber, named for aviation advocate Billy Mitchell.
Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
The four-engine Flying Fortress, a major American bomber of the Second World War.
A post-war Businessliner with a radial engine, cabin transport ambitions and tailwheel gear.
An open-cockpit biplane trainer that found a second life in civilian flying.
A twin-hull flying boat with its engines mounted together above the wing.
A shorter wide-body Airbus from the transition to two-pilot, electronic-instrument cockpits.
A streamlined light twin helicopter, with the later Bell 230 in the same family.
A compact rear-engined jet designed for short-haul regional airline work.
A DC-10-derived tanker that combined aerial refuelling with passenger and cargo transport.
A compact Czech touring aircraft with side-by-side seats and a streamlined low-wing airframe.
An amphibious turboprop designed around scooping water and delivering it to fires.
A single-engine utility helicopter known as the Écureuil, Squirrel and AStar.
A six-seat composite single turboprop with a pressurised cabin and retractable gear.
A radial-engined utility aircraft closely associated with bush flying and float operations.
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