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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 lightweight short-field aircraft with a specialised wing and tall, shock-absorbing landing gear.
A vast inter-war flying boat with twelve engines arranged in six paired installations.
A large long-haul twin that introduced Boeing's first commercial fly-by-wire airliner flight controls.
A First World War trainer that became a familiar sight in the barnstorming era.
Cessna's retractable-gear Centurion, a high-wing touring aircraft.
A carrier-capable multirole fighter, larger than the earlier Hornet from which it developed.
A twin-turboprop utility aircraft developed by Reims Aviation with Cessna.
A three-engine airliner that became a mainstay of Soviet and Russian passenger transport.
A four-seat high-wing single that spans generations of conventional instruments and glass cockpits.
A tandem-seat development of Scheibe’s touring motorglider family.
A specialised reconnaissance aircraft designed for very high altitude and sustained supersonic flight.
A compact Italian light twin with a shoulder wing and metal airframe.
The Stationair utility family, combining a high wing with fixed landing gear.
A pressurised regional airliner with a high wing and two Rolls-Royce Dart turboprops.
A very large single-engine biplane designed for practical work from modest airfields.
A high-wing twin turboprop developed for regional freight and passenger transport.
A corrugated-metal, three-engine transport from the formative years of airline travel.
A pressurised cabin-class piston twin, from the tip-tanked 414 to the longer-wing 414A and its many aftermarket conversions.
A fixed-gear twin turboprop with a long history in regional and remote-area transport.
A regional jet family with four small engines, a high wing and a large split tail airbrake.
A streamlined twin-engine helicopter with a Fenestron tail rotor and retractable landing gear.
A cabin-class piston twin designed for commuter, cargo and utility work.
A four-abreast regional-jet family spanning the E170, E175, E190 and E195.
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