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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.
Regional flying built around a high wing, two turboprops and short sectors.
A pioneering light helicopter whose bubble cabin and exposed structure became widely recognisable.
A pioneering all-metal transport with an enclosed passenger cabin and corrugated skin.
An open, single-seat ultralight with its propeller behind the pilot.
A composite touring single with a whole-aircraft parachute and several generations of avionics.
A self-launching sailplane family with its engine inside the fuselage and a folding nose propeller.
Lockheed's wide-body TriStar, with three RB211 engines and a distinctive tail intake.
A military liaison aircraft built around a high wing, tandem cabin and short-field utility work.
A very large single-engine biplane designed for practical work from modest airfields.
A four-seat touring family whose Commander 114 added a larger engine and further refinements.
Ted Smith's piston twin, later produced by Piper as the Aerostar.
A 1920s transport family that developed from a single-engine airliner into a trimotor.
A 1920s flying boat with two engines arranged in tandem above the wing.
A Swedish reconnaissance and dive-bombing aircraft from the early 1940s.
The turboprop-powered member of Beechcraft’s tandem-seat Mentor training family.
A compact Australian wartime fighter built around a radial engine.
The Huey: a turbine-powered utility helicopter with a broad cabin and an unmistakable two-bladed rotor.
A jet-powered military transport designed for both strategic loads and tactical airfield access.
A twin-radial military transport with a rear ramp and short-field design priorities.
A four-seat high-wing single that spans generations of conventional instruments and glass cockpits.
A tandem-seat jet trainer that also found a second life in civilian display and racing.
A long-range trijet developed from the DC-10 with a stretched fuselage and revised wing and cockpit.
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