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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 retractable-gear touring single with an all-metal airframe and a long-lived enthusiast following.
A military liaison aircraft built around a high wing, tandem cabin and short-field utility work.
A small twin-engine amphibian that moved from business transport into military and utility service.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
A wartime fighter developed from the earlier Curtiss P-36.
A high-wing light sport aircraft with a broad glazed cabin and tricycle landing gear.
An enclosed-cabin development of the Bell 47, shaped for passenger and executive transport.
A tandem-seat canard homebuilt with a pusher engine and distinctive winglets.
A radial-engine trainer that also served in combat and civilian warbird roles.
Piper's PA-31 utility twin, used in commuter, cargo and corporate transport.
A narrow-body twin developed as a new generation of medium-range airliner.
The tip-tanked turbofan Learjets, combining the classic compact airframe with longer range and careers in business, military and medical flying.
A compact racing aeroplane built around a large radial engine and very short fuselage.
Embraer's regional-jet family, from the ERJ 135 to the longer ERJ 145.
A 1920s transport family that developed from a single-engine airliner into a trimotor.
The retractable member of Beechcraft’s Musketeer family: a roomy, four-cylinder travelling aircraft with an unusually large baggage door.
A five-seat composite single whose development led to the diesel DA50 RG.
A modern composite twin with a roomy cabin and two wing-mounted piston engines.
A lightweight short-field aircraft with a specialised wing and tall, shock-absorbing landing gear.
A long-range fighter whose different engine and canopy developments produced several distinct forms.
Ted Smith's piston twin, later produced by Piper as the Aerostar.
The fixed-gear, six-cylinder touring branch of Piper's PA-28 family.
The four-engine Flying Fortress, a major American bomber of the Second World War.
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