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Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
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Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
The JetRanger and LongRanger family: a familiar turbine-helicopter shape with distinct cabin lengths.
A tandem-seat utility aircraft whose light structure and high wing suit bush, towing and recreational work.
A very large single-engine biplane designed for practical work from modest airfields.
A composite, low-wing touring single with fixed gear and a turbocharged engine.
An open-cockpit biplane trainer that found a second life in civilian flying.
Diamond's four-seat light twin, developed with diesel-powered versions.
A twin-radial military transport with a rear ramp and short-field design priorities.
A four-seat kit-built touring aircraft that expanded the RV family beyond two-seat designs.
A two-seat naval fighter with variable-sweep wings and a cockpit built around pilot and radar-intercept officer roles.
A single-engine utility helicopter known as the Écureuil, Squirrel and AStar.
The Wilga is the real-aircraft starting point for Mike Patey's DRACO and the simulator's DRACO X.
A compact Japanese twin turboprop with a high wing and pressurised cabin.
A tailwheel utility single built around a high wing and a substantial working cabin.
A composite two-seat light sport aircraft with an unobstructed cantilever high wing.
An enlarged Velocity kit aircraft with a canard and rear-mounted pusher propeller.
An unpowered military cargo glider designed to deliver troops and equipment behind a tow aircraft.
Lockheed's tandem-seat Shooting Star jet trainer.
A modern open-cockpit light aircraft that revives the corrugated-metal style of the 1929 A50.
Beechcraft's Model 76, designed to introduce pilots to twin-engine flying.
A long-range trijet developed from the DC-10 with a stretched fuselage and revised wing and cockpit.
A tandem two-seat sailplane family used for training and cross-country soaring.
A compact twin-engine helicopter widely used for medical, police and training work.
The tip-tanked turbofan Learjets, combining the classic compact airframe with longer range and careers in business, military and medical flying.
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