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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.
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A two-seat composite kit aircraft developed from the Lancair 320.
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An experimental twin-boom racing aircraft commissioned by Bob Pond and designed by Burt Rutan.
A tandem-seat light aircraft with a streamlined low-wing layout.
A self-launching sailplane family with its engine inside the fuselage and a folding nose propeller.
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