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Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
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Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
The purpose-built Ryan monoplane used by Charles Lindbergh for his 1927 solo Atlantic crossing.
A tailwheel utility aircraft with a high wing and a large cabin loading door.
A four-engine airliner that brought pressurised-cabin travel into scheduled service.
A regional turboprop family whose short early versions and larger Q400 have different proportions and systems.
A large long-haul twin that introduced Boeing's first commercial fly-by-wire airliner flight controls.
SOCATA's touring-aircraft family, including the Tobago and Trinidad.
A two-seat touring motorglider with interchangeable wing tips.
A low-wing piston family that spans simple trainers, touring aircraft and retractable-gear Arrows.
A long-range twin whose programme emphasised composite construction and more electrically powered systems.
Tecnam's four-seat high-wing single, built with metal and carbon-fibre components.
A pioneering light helicopter whose bubble cabin and exposed structure became widely recognisable.
A very large single-engine biplane designed for practical work from modest airfields.
A six-engine flying boat created for long-distance passenger travel over water.
A French two-seat aerobatic trainer with side-by-side seating and a distinctive curved wing outline.
A short-haul jet family that evolved through several generations of engines, wings and flight decks.
A compact twin-engine helicopter widely used for medical, police and training work.
A pressurised four-engine piston transport from the last major generation before the jet airliner.
A Hungarian two-seat light helicopter powered by a Rotax 915 iS.
A huge wooden flying-boat prototype that made one brief flight in 1947.
The four-engine Flying Fortress, a major American bomber of the Second World War.
The four-engine wide-body whose raised flight deck created one of aviation's most recognisable profiles.
A five-seat composite single whose development led to the diesel DA50 RG.
A tandem two-seat sailplane designed for instruction and broader soaring use.
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