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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.
Regional flying built around a high wing, two turboprops and short sectors.
A long-haul twin whose family spans passenger, freight and specialist transport roles.
A low-wing piston family that spans simple trainers, touring aircraft and retractable-gear Arrows.
A radial-engined light transport whose long career covered passengers, freight and military training.
A late-1930s cabin aircraft with metal construction and retractable landing gear.
A pressurised single-engine turboprop family that combines a compact cabin with retractable gear.
A five-seat turbine helicopter developed from Robinson's smaller piston-helicopter line.
A twin-hull flying boat with its engines mounted together above the wing.
A composite, low-wing touring single with fixed gear and a turbocharged engine.
Ted Smith's piston twin, later produced by Piper as the Aerostar.
A military transport developed from the DC-3, used for cargo, troops, parachuting and glider towing.
A compact Italian light twin with a shoulder wing and metal airframe.
A swept-wing business jet designed around high subsonic cruise speed.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
SOCATA's touring-aircraft family, including the Tobago and Trinidad.
A single-seat aerobatic monoplane that also became a familiar air-racing aircraft.
A medium commercial helicopter designed for passenger and utility transport.
A six-engine flying boat created for long-distance passenger travel over water.
A long-range fighter whose different engine and canopy developments produced several distinct forms.
A small open gyroplane with an unpowered rotor and pusher propulsion.
A twin-engine business jet designed to retain some of the utility flexibility associated with the PC-12.
A fixed-gear twin turboprop with a long history in regional and remote-area transport.
A two-seat light amphibian with a compact boat hull and a pusher propeller.
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