Hughes H-4 Hercules ↗
A huge wooden flying-boat prototype that made one brief flight in 1947.
Explore the aircraft. Find your simulator. Follow the sources.
A huge wooden flying-boat prototype that made one brief flight in 1947.
Cessna's unusual piston-powered helicopter, marketed as the Skyhook.
A light amphibian with a hull, retractable wheels and a pusher propeller.
The Mitchell medium bomber, named for aviation advocate Billy Mitchell.
A four-seat, pressurised kit aircraft with a composite airframe and retractable landing gear.
Dassault's long-range Falcon 8X, developed from the three-engine 7X.
A carbon-fibre aerobatic monoplane family with a dedicated air-racing branch.
Ted Smith's piston twin, later produced by Piper as the Aerostar.
A rear-engined trijet built to bring jet service to shorter routes and smaller airports.
A late-war single-seat jet fighter with its engine mounted above the fuselage.
A large long-haul twin that introduced Boeing's first commercial fly-by-wire airliner flight controls.
A three-engine airliner that became a mainstay of Soviet and Russian passenger transport.
An advanced trainer known around the world as the Texan, Harvard and SNJ.
Lockheed's tandem-seat Shooting Star jet trainer.
A Swedish reconnaissance and dive-bombing aircraft from the early 1940s.
The H130 utility helicopter, descended from the AS350 and fitted with a Fenestron.
A purpose-built agricultural aircraft that also became a single-engine air tanker.
A pressurised four-engine piston transport from the last major generation before the jet airliner.
A modern open-cockpit light aircraft that revives the corrugated-metal style of the 1929 A50.
A corrugated-metal, three-engine transport from the formative years of airline travel.
A pressurised single turboprop with a large cargo door and a broad range of working roles.
Embraer's regional-jet family, from the ERJ 135 to the longer ERJ 145.
A five-seat composite single whose development led to the diesel DA50 RG.
A two-seat composite kit aircraft developed from the Lancair 320.
New aircraft, useful sources and improvements to AirframeDB. Occasional updates, when there’s something to share.