Grumman Albatross HU-16 / G-111 ↗
A large amphibious flying boat built around maritime rescue and utility transport.
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A large amphibious flying boat built around maritime rescue and utility transport.
A pioneering light helicopter whose bubble cabin and exposed structure became widely recognisable.
A pressurised four-engine piston transport from the last major generation before the jet airliner.
A twin-engine utility helicopter with roots in the BK 117 and EC145 families.
A wartime fighter developed from the earlier Curtiss P-36.
An amphibious turboprop designed around scooping water and delivering it to fires.
A British jet trainer with tandem seating and a long military training career.
A side-by-side two-seat sailplane with a retractable powerplant for self-launching.
A modern two-seat piston helicopter designed around the training role.
A pressurised single-engine turboprop family that combines a compact cabin with retractable gear.
A huge wooden flying-boat prototype that made one brief flight in 1947.
Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
A European variable-sweep combat-aircraft family with distinct strike and interceptor versions.
A tandem-seat homebuilt jet with composite construction and retractable landing gear.
A purpose-built aerobatic monoplane family developed by pilot and designer Walter Extra.
An open-cockpit biplane trainer that found a second life in civilian flying.
A radial-engined utility aircraft closely associated with bush flying and float operations.
A pressurised regional airliner with a high wing and two Rolls-Royce Dart turboprops.
A late member of the Nieuport V-strut scout family, remembered both as a First World War fighter and as an advanced trainer.
A single-seat aerobatic monoplane that also became a familiar air-racing aircraft.
The retractable member of Beechcraft’s Musketeer family: a roomy, four-cylinder travelling aircraft with an unusually large baggage door.
A high-wing twin turboprop developed for regional freight and passenger transport.
A two-seat naval fighter with variable-sweep wings and a cockpit built around pilot and radar-intercept officer roles.
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