Curtiss C-46 Commando ↗
A large twin-radial transport that carried heavy loads through wartime and post-war freight service.
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A large twin-radial transport that carried heavy loads through wartime and post-war freight service.
A single-seat aerobatic monoplane that also became a familiar air-racing aircraft.
A twin-engine utility helicopter with roots in the BK 117 and EC145 families.
A huge wooden flying-boat prototype that made one brief flight in 1947.
A powered hang-glider wing above an amphibious inflatable boat.
A tandem two-seat sailplane designed for instruction and broader soaring use.
A retractable-gear touring single with an all-metal airframe and a long-lived enthusiast following.
A pressurised four-engine piston transport from the last major generation before the jet airliner.
The retractable member of Beechcraft’s Musketeer family: a roomy, four-cylinder travelling aircraft with an unusually large baggage door.
A heavy transport helicopter whose two large rotors remove the need for a tail rotor.
A corrugated-metal, three-engine transport from the formative years of airline travel.
A two-seat training single with a high wing and fixed tricycle landing gear.
A flyable interpretation of Testors’ 1980s speculative stealth-fighter design.
Lockheed's wide-body TriStar, with three RB211 engines and a distinctive tail intake.
A light amphibian with a hull, retractable wheels and a pusher propeller.
A wooden touring-aircraft family recognisable by the upward-angled outer wing panels.
A tandem-seat light aircraft with a streamlined low-wing layout.
A shorter wide-body Airbus from the transition to two-pilot, electronic-instrument cockpits.
A wartime fighter developed from the earlier Curtiss P-36.
An experimental twin-boom racing aircraft commissioned by Bob Pond and designed by Burt Rutan.
The second-generation Harrier, designed around vectored thrust and short-field operation.
A four-engine tactical transport built around a rear loading ramp and access to austere airfields.
The tip-tanked turbofan Learjets, combining the classic compact airframe with longer range and careers in business, military and medical flying.
Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
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