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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 four-seat kit-built touring aircraft that expanded the RV family beyond two-seat designs.
A composite, low-wing touring single with fixed gear and a turbocharged engine.
A light two-seat helicopter with a side-by-side cabin and a semi-rigid main rotor.
A pressurised cabin-class piston twin, from the tip-tanked 414 to the longer-wing 414A and its many aftermarket conversions.
A light tandem-seat taildragger built around the familiar braced high-wing layout.
A long-range twin designed around a new wide-body airframe and extensive composite construction.
A five-seat composite single whose development led to the diesel DA50 RG.
A modern two-seat piston helicopter designed around the training role.
Grumman’s small twin-engine amphibian: a flying boat with retractable wheels and a life spanning wartime service, private travel and seaplane training.
A Canadian tandem-seat trainer developed after the Second World War.
A tandem two-seat sailplane designed for instruction and broader soaring use.
The fixed-gear, six-cylinder touring branch of Piper's PA-28 family.
A rear-engined trijet built to bring jet service to shorter routes and smaller airports.
A stretched development of the DC-9 with rear-mounted engines and a five-abreast cabin.
A full-length double-deck airliner built for very high passenger capacity.
A tandem-seat jet trainer that also found a second life in civilian display and racing.
The turboprop-powered member of Beechcraft’s tandem-seat Mentor training family.
The purpose-built Ryan monoplane used by Charles Lindbergh for his 1927 solo Atlantic crossing.
An electric-powered educational glider concept inspired by the human-powered MIT Daedalus 88.
A four-seat high-wing single that spans generations of conventional instruments and glass cockpits.
Ted Smith's piston twin, later produced by Piper as the Aerostar.
A tandem-seat light aircraft with a streamlined low-wing layout.
A high-wing light sport aircraft with a broad glazed cabin and tricycle landing gear.
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