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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 two-seat touring motorglider with interchangeable wing tips.
Lockheed's wide-body TriStar, with three RB211 engines and a distinctive tail intake.
A four-engine tactical transport built around a rear loading ramp and access to austere airfields.
A four-seat piston helicopter with a two-blade main rotor and conventional tail rotor.
A narrow-body twin developed as a new generation of medium-range airliner.
A pressurised cabin-class piston twin, from the tip-tanked 414 to the longer-wing 414A and its many aftermarket conversions.
A pressurised four-engine piston transport from the last major generation before the jet airliner.
The second-generation Harrier, designed around vectored thrust and short-field operation.
A long-range twin whose programme emphasised composite construction and more electrically powered systems.
A twin-turbine Huey descendant with a four-blade main rotor.
A radial-engined utility aircraft closely associated with bush flying and float operations.
A modern open-cockpit light aircraft that revives the corrugated-metal style of the 1929 A50.
A high-wing twin turboprop developed for regional freight and passenger transport.
The four-engine Flying Fortress, a major American bomber of the Second World War.
A specialised reconnaissance aircraft designed for very high altitude and sustained supersonic flight.
A four-engine Airbus wide-body developed in parallel with the A330.
A two-seat training single with a high wing and fixed tricycle landing gear.
A six-seat composite single turboprop with a pressurised cabin and retractable gear.
A two-seat light amphibian with a compact boat hull and a pusher propeller.
A five-seat composite single whose development led to the diesel DA50 RG.
A radial-engine trainer that also served in combat and civilian warbird roles.
A retractable-gear touring single with an all-metal airframe and a long-lived enthusiast following.
A composite, low-wing touring single with fixed gear and a turbocharged engine.
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