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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 rear-engined trijet built to bring jet service to shorter routes and smaller airports.
A four-engine airliner that brought pressurised-cabin travel into scheduled service.
An unpowered military cargo glider designed to deliver troops and equipment behind a tow aircraft.
Dassault's long-range Falcon 8X, developed from the three-engine 7X.
An enclosed-cabin development of the Bell 47, shaped for passenger and executive transport.
A composite touring single with a whole-aircraft parachute and several generations of avionics.
A long-running touring single, familiar in both V-tail and conventional-tail forms.
A four-engine jetliner that helped establish the shape of long-distance jet travel.
Regional flying built around a high wing, two turboprops and short sectors.
A twin-radial airliner that helped make practical passenger transport a regular business.
A twin-hull flying boat with its engines mounted together above the wing.
A side-by-side touring motorglider used for both powered flying and soaring.
A huge wooden flying-boat prototype that made one brief flight in 1947.
A twin-radial military transport with a rear ramp and short-field design priorities.
A regional turboprop family whose short early versions and larger Q400 have different proportions and systems.
A long-range trijet developed from the DC-10 with a stretched fuselage and revised wing and cockpit.
The Huey: a turbine-powered utility helicopter with a broad cabin and an unmistakable two-bladed rotor.
A low-wing piston twin that carries the Beechcraft touring-aircraft lineage into two-engine flying.
A tandem-seat canard homebuilt with a pusher engine and distinctive winglets.
The tip-tanked turbofan Learjets, combining the classic compact airframe with longer range and careers in business, military and medical flying.
A purpose-built agricultural aircraft that also became a single-engine air tanker.
A four-seat piston helicopter with a two-blade main rotor and conventional tail rotor.
A modern two-seat piston helicopter designed around the training role.
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