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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 military transport developed from the DC-3, used for cargo, troops, parachuting and glider towing.
The Huey: a turbine-powered utility helicopter with a broad cabin and an unmistakable two-bladed rotor.
A streamlined light twin helicopter, with the later Bell 230 in the same family.
A fixed-wing observation aircraft with a helicopter-like view from its glazed nose.
A lightweight short-field aircraft with a specialised wing and tall, shock-absorbing landing gear.
A two-seat touring motorglider with interchangeable wing tips.
The CJ4 belongs to Cessna's light-jet line, with two rear-mounted engines and a T-tail.
A military liaison aircraft built around a high wing, tandem cabin and short-field utility work.
A British utility twin built around short regional and practical transport work.
A regional jet family with four small engines, a high wing and a large split tail airbrake.
A tandem two-seat sailplane designed for instruction and broader soaring use.
The Mitchell medium bomber, named for aviation advocate Billy Mitchell.
Lockheed's wide-body TriStar, with three RB211 engines and a distinctive tail intake.
A high-wing twin turboprop developed for regional freight and passenger transport.
A twin-turboprop regional airliner developed through Swedish and American industrial cooperation.
A late member of the Nieuport V-strut scout family, remembered both as a First World War fighter and as an advanced trainer.
A tandem-seat development of Scheibe’s touring motorglider family.
A super-midsize business jet with a swept wing, rear-mounted engines and an integrated glass cockpit.
An open, single-seat ultralight with its propeller behind the pilot.
Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
A Brazilian light trainer with a high wing, tandem seats and a simple utility layout.
A corrugated-metal transport best known in its three-engine form.
A modern composite twin with a roomy cabin and two wing-mounted piston engines.
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