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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.
A pioneering light helicopter whose bubble cabin and exposed structure became widely recognisable.
A five-seat turbine helicopter developed from Robinson's smaller piston-helicopter line.
A two-seat Tecnam high-wing aircraft combining composite and metal construction.
A six-engine flying boat created for long-distance passenger travel over water.
An advanced trainer known around the world as the Texan, Harvard and SNJ.
A side-by-side two-seat sailplane with a retractable powerplant for self-launching.
A very large single-engine biplane designed for practical work from modest airfields.
Ted Smith's piston twin, later produced by Piper as the Aerostar.
A three-engine airliner that became a mainstay of Soviet and Russian passenger transport.
A tandem-seat development of Scheibe’s touring motorglider family.
A huge wooden flying-boat prototype that made one brief flight in 1947.
A small twin-engine amphibian that moved from business transport into military and utility service.
A purpose-built aerobatic monoplane family developed by pilot and designer Walter Extra.
A cabin biplane with the lower wing placed ahead of the upper one.
A pressurised single turboprop with a large cargo door and a broad range of working roles.
A radial-engined light transport whose long career covered passengers, freight and military training.
A tandem two-seat sailplane family used for training and cross-country soaring.
A twin-engine utility helicopter with roots in the BK 117 and EC145 families.
A four-abreast regional-jet family spanning the E170, E175, E190 and E195.
Lockheed's tandem-seat Shooting Star jet trainer.
A push-pull twin with one engine at each end of the central fuselage.
An experimental twin-boom racing aircraft commissioned by Bob Pond and designed by Burt Rutan.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
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