Ryan NYP “Spirit of St. Louis” ↗
The purpose-built Ryan monoplane used by Charles Lindbergh for his 1927 solo Atlantic crossing.
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The purpose-built Ryan monoplane used by Charles Lindbergh for his 1927 solo Atlantic crossing.
A two-seat powered hang-glider trike with an open cockpit.
A huge wooden flying-boat prototype that made one brief flight in 1947.
A four-engine airliner whose history also includes long-range maritime military service.
A long-running touring single, familiar in both V-tail and conventional-tail forms.
A swept-wing business jet designed around high subsonic cruise speed.
A composite, low-wing touring single with fixed gear and a turbocharged engine.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
A DC-10-derived tanker that combined aerial refuelling with passenger and cargo transport.
A long-haul twin whose family spans passenger, freight and specialist transport roles.
The four-engine wide-body whose raised flight deck created one of aviation's most recognisable profiles.
An open, single-seat ultralight with its propeller behind the pilot.
A shorter wide-body Airbus from the transition to two-pilot, electronic-instrument cockpits.
A tailwheel utility aircraft with a high wing and a large cabin loading door.
A lightweight short-field aircraft with a specialised wing and tall, shock-absorbing landing gear.
A tandem-seat jet trainer that also found a second life in civilian display and racing.
A twin-turboprop family whose smaller conventional-tail and larger T-tail branches have distinct identities.
A simulated twin-turbine helicopter that explores no-tail-rotor anti-torque control.
An enclosed, two-seat autogyro with side-by-side seating and a pusher propeller.
A small three-engine demonstrator created to explore technologies for a future supersonic airliner.
A twin-engine business jet designed to retain some of the utility flexibility associated with the PC-12.
A late member of the Nieuport V-strut scout family, remembered both as a First World War fighter and as an advanced trainer.
A twin-turbine Huey descendant with a four-blade main rotor.
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