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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 pressurised four-engine piston transport from the last major generation before the jet airliner.
A Swedish reconnaissance and dive-bombing aircraft from the early 1940s.
A shorter wide-body Airbus from the transition to two-pilot, electronic-instrument cockpits.
A lightweight short-field aircraft with a specialised wing and tall, shock-absorbing landing gear.
A four-engine airliner that brought pressurised-cabin travel into scheduled service.
A DC-10-derived tanker that combined aerial refuelling with passenger and cargo transport.
A retractable-gear touring single with an all-metal airframe and a long-lived enthusiast following.
A tandem-seat autogyro prototype developed around transport and observation roles.
The turboprop-powered member of Beechcraft’s tandem-seat Mentor training family.
A two-seat naval fighter with variable-sweep wings and a cockpit built around pilot and radar-intercept officer roles.
A pressurised twin turboprop with a canard, composite airframe and rear-facing propellers.
An open-cockpit biplane trainer that found a second life in civilian flying.
A twin-turboprop regional airliner developed through Swedish and American industrial cooperation.
A compact Italian light twin with a shoulder wing and metal airframe.
An open, single-seat ultralight with its propeller behind the pilot.
A single-engine turboprop workhorse for passenger services, freight and remote-area transport.
A four-seat touring family whose Commander 114 added a larger engine and further refinements.
A four-seat piston helicopter with a two-blade main rotor and conventional tail rotor.
A single-engine utility helicopter known as the Écureuil, Squirrel and AStar.
An advanced trainer known around the world as the Texan, Harvard and SNJ.
A large twin-radial transport that carried heavy loads through wartime and post-war freight service.
A two-seat light amphibian with a compact boat hull and a pusher propeller.
A push-pull twin with one engine at each end of the central fuselage.
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