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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 four-engine military turboprop designed to combine tactical access with long-distance transport.
A four-abreast regional-jet family spanning the E170, E175, E190 and E195.
A tandem-seat jet trainer that also found a second life in civilian display and racing.
A self-launching sailplane family with its engine inside the fuselage and a folding nose propeller.
An open-cockpit biplane trainer that found a second life in civilian flying.
The second-generation Harrier, designed around vectored thrust and short-field operation.
A midsize business jet developed by Bombardier’s Learjet division.
The Wilga is the real-aircraft starting point for Mike Patey's DRACO and the simulator's DRACO X.
A large twin-engine helicopter from the Super Puma line, used for offshore and public-service work.
Lockheed's wide-body TriStar, with three RB211 engines and a distinctive tail intake.
A short-haul jet family that evolved through several generations of engines, wings and flight decks.
Ted Smith's piston twin, later produced by Piper as the Aerostar.
Airbus's first production aircraft, built around a twin-engine wide-body layout.
An amphibious turboprop designed around scooping water and delivering it to fires.
A compact Italian light twin with a shoulder wing and metal airframe.
A French two-seat aerobatic trainer with side-by-side seating and a distinctive curved wing outline.
A high-wing utility turboprop designed for short-field passenger and cargo work.
A four-seat touring family whose Commander 114 added a larger engine and further refinements.
A composite amphibian that carries Dornier's centreline engine arrangement into the turboprop era.
Cessna's retractable-gear Centurion, a high-wing touring aircraft.
A side-by-side military trainer with a low wing and fixed tricycle landing gear.
A four-seat high-wing single that spans generations of conventional instruments and glass cockpits.
A large long-haul twin that introduced Boeing's first commercial fly-by-wire airliner flight controls.
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