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A British utility twin built around short regional and practical transport work.
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A British utility twin built around short regional and practical transport work.
A box-shaped utility twin whose cabin and rear access are central to its design.
A First World War trainer that became a familiar sight in the barnstorming era.
A pioneering all-metal transport with an enclosed passenger cabin and corrugated skin.
A large twin-radial transport that carried heavy loads through wartime and post-war freight service.
A 1920s transport family that developed from a single-engine airliner into a trimotor.
A late member of the Nieuport V-strut scout family, remembered both as a First World War fighter and as an advanced trainer.
A Canadian tandem-seat trainer developed after the Second World War.
A British jet trainer with tandem seating and a long military training career.
Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
A purpose-built agricultural aircraft that also became a single-engine air tanker.
A single-engine utility helicopter known as the Écureuil, Squirrel and AStar.
An early CRJ regional jet with rear-mounted engines and a small airliner flight deck.
An electric-powered educational glider concept inspired by the human-powered MIT Daedalus 88.
Three fictional aircraft for exploring X-Plane’s atmosphere, terrain and extreme flight regimes.
A two-seat composite kit aircraft developed from the Lancair 320.
A composite touring single with a whole-aircraft parachute and several generations of avionics.
A short-haul jet family that evolved through several generations of engines, wings and flight decks.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
A super-midsize business jet with a swept wing, rear-mounted engines and an integrated glass cockpit.
An experimental twin-boom racing aircraft commissioned by Bob Pond and designed by Burt Rutan.
A long-range trijet developed from the DC-10 with a stretched fuselage and revised wing and cockpit.
A five-seat composite single whose development led to the diesel DA50 RG.
A high-wing utility aircraft known for short-field work and a broad choice of working configurations.
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