NAMC YS-11 ↗
Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
Explore the aircraft. Find your simulator. Follow the sources.
Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
A corrugated-metal, three-engine transport from the formative years of airline travel.
The JetRanger and LongRanger family: a familiar turbine-helicopter shape with distinct cabin lengths.
A British jet trainer with tandem seating and a long military training career.
A twin-engine business jet designed to retain some of the utility flexibility associated with the PC-12.
A huge wooden flying-boat prototype that made one brief flight in 1947.
A shorter wide-body Airbus from the transition to two-pilot, electronic-instrument cockpits.
A heavy transport helicopter whose two large rotors remove the need for a tail rotor.
A midsize business jet developed by Bombardier’s Learjet division.
An Italian light aircraft known for military training and aerobatic use.
A twin-turboprop regional airliner developed through Swedish and American industrial cooperation.
A small open gyroplane with an unpowered rotor and pusher propulsion.
RotorWay's two-seat kit-helicopter family, with piston and turbine simulator interpretations.
The four-engine wide-body whose raised flight deck created one of aviation's most recognisable profiles.
A six-engine flying boat created for long-distance passenger travel over water.
A four-seat piston helicopter with a two-blade main rotor and conventional tail rotor.
The Huey: a turbine-powered utility helicopter with a broad cabin and an unmistakable two-bladed rotor.
A long-haul twin whose family spans passenger, freight and specialist transport roles.
A box-shaped utility twin whose cabin and rear access are central to its design.
A two-seat composite kit aircraft developed from the Lancair 320.
A specialised reconnaissance aircraft designed for very high altitude and sustained supersonic flight.
An experimental French helicopter with two coaxial, counter-rotating rotors.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
New aircraft, useful sources and improvements to AirframeDB. Occasional updates, when there’s something to share.