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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 family of single-aisle airliners built around sidesticks, electronic flight controls and a shared cockpit.
A modern medium twin-engine helicopter developed as a successor to the Dauphin line.
A six-engine heavy transport created for exceptionally large external and internal loads.
Ted Smith's piston twin, later produced by Piper as the Aerostar.
A long-range twin whose programme emphasised composite construction and more electrically powered systems.
A turbine-powered utility helicopter with a broad cabin and a long international service history.
Cirrus's first type-certified aircraft, a composite piston single.
A tandem-seat development of Scheibe’s touring motorglider family.
A large long-haul twin that introduced Boeing's first commercial fly-by-wire airliner flight controls.
A twin-radial airliner that helped make practical passenger transport a regular business.
A late-1930s cabin aircraft with metal construction and retractable landing gear.
An enclosed, two-seat autogyro with side-by-side seating and a pusher propeller.
Cessna's unusual piston-powered helicopter, marketed as the Skyhook.
A large twin-engine helicopter from the Super Puma line, used for offshore and public-service work.
A modern open-cockpit light aircraft that revives the corrugated-metal style of the 1929 A50.
A high-wing light sport aircraft with a broad glazed cabin and tricycle landing gear.
Piper's PA-31 utility twin, used in commuter, cargo and corporate transport.
A retractable-gear touring single with an all-metal airframe and a long-lived enthusiast following.
A corrugated-metal transport best known in its three-engine form.
A pressurised single-engine turboprop family that combines a compact cabin with retractable gear.
A small two-seat piston helicopter with a two-bladed main rotor.
A stretched development of the DC-9 with rear-mounted engines and a five-abreast cabin.
A tandem-seat jet trainer that also found a second life in civilian display and racing.
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