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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 modern open-cockpit light aircraft that revives the corrugated-metal style of the 1929 A50.
A modern medium twin-engine helicopter developed as a successor to the Dauphin line.
A small three-engine demonstrator created to explore technologies for a future supersonic airliner.
A modern composite twin with a roomy cabin and two wing-mounted piston engines.
A regional turboprop family whose short early versions and larger Q400 have different proportions and systems.
A European variable-sweep combat-aircraft family with distinct strike and interceptor versions.
A six-engine heavy transport created for exceptionally large external and internal loads.
The retractable member of Beechcraft’s Musketeer family: a roomy, four-cylinder travelling aircraft with an unusually large baggage door.
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 close-air-support aircraft with a straight wing, twin tail and two widely separated jet engines.
An amphibious turboprop designed around scooping water and delivering it to fires.
A DC-10-derived tanker that combined aerial refuelling with passenger and cargo transport.
A side-by-side military trainer with a low wing and fixed tricycle landing gear.
A four-engine tactical transport built around a rear loading ramp and access to austere airfields.
A turbine-powered utility helicopter with a broad cabin and a long international service history.
A Swedish reconnaissance and dive-bombing aircraft from the early 1940s.
A five-seat composite single whose development led to the diesel DA50 RG.
A full-length double-deck airliner built for very high passenger capacity.
Ted Smith's piston twin, later produced by Piper as the Aerostar.
An advanced trainer known around the world as the Texan, Harvard and SNJ.
A Polish utility aircraft designed for short takeoffs and landings.
A twin-turboprop utility aircraft developed by Reims Aviation with Cessna.
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