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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 compact twin-engine helicopter widely used for medical, police and training work.
A low-wing agricultural Cessna with a cockpit and hopper arranged around the job.
A utility piston twin designed for commuter and specialist transport missions.
The JetRanger and LongRanger family: a familiar turbine-helicopter shape with distinct cabin lengths.
Piper's two-seat trainer with fixed tricycle landing gear.
A Brazilian light trainer with a high wing, tandem seats and a simple utility layout.
A French two-seat aerobatic trainer with side-by-side seating and a distinctive curved wing outline.
The purpose-built Ryan monoplane used by Charles Lindbergh for his 1927 solo Atlantic crossing.
The four-engine wide-body whose raised flight deck created one of aviation's most recognisable profiles.
The Wilga is the real-aircraft starting point for Mike Patey's DRACO and the simulator's DRACO X.
A two-seat naval fighter with variable-sweep wings and a cockpit built around pilot and radar-intercept officer roles.
A post-war Businessliner with a radial engine, cabin transport ambitions and tailwheel gear.
A compact regional turboprop with a pressurised cabin for up to 19 passengers.
The retractable member of Beechcraft’s Musketeer family: a roomy, four-cylinder travelling aircraft with an unusually large baggage door.
The Stationair utility family, combining a high wing with fixed landing gear.
A super-midsize business jet with a swept wing, rear-mounted engines and an integrated glass cockpit.
A long-haul twin whose family spans passenger, freight and specialist transport roles.
Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
Tecnam's four-seat high-wing single, built with metal and carbon-fibre components.
A long-range twin designed around a new wide-body airframe and extensive composite construction.
A vast inter-war flying boat with twelve engines arranged in six paired installations.
The second-generation Harrier, designed around vectored thrust and short-field operation.
A long-range twin whose programme emphasised composite construction and more electrically powered systems.
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