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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.
An Italian light aircraft known for military training and aerobatic use.
A stretched development of the DC-9 with rear-mounted engines and a five-abreast cabin.
A huge wooden flying-boat prototype that made one brief flight in 1947.
A specialised reconnaissance aircraft designed for very high altitude and sustained supersonic flight.
A large long-haul twin that introduced Boeing's first commercial fly-by-wire airliner flight controls.
A purpose-built aerobatic monoplane family developed by pilot and designer Walter Extra.
A twin-turboprop utility aircraft developed by Reims Aviation with Cessna.
The purpose-built Ryan monoplane used by Charles Lindbergh for his 1927 solo Atlantic crossing.
A purpose-built agricultural aircraft that also became a single-engine air tanker.
Cessna's unusual piston-powered helicopter, marketed as the Skyhook.
A shorter wide-body Airbus from the transition to two-pilot, electronic-instrument cockpits.
Two related Dutch regional jets developed from the F28 lineage.
An enclosed, two-seat autogyro with side-by-side seating and a pusher propeller.
A close-air-support aircraft with a straight wing, twin tail and two widely separated jet engines.
A single-engine utility helicopter known as the Écureuil, Squirrel and AStar.
A push-pull twin with one engine at each end of the central fuselage.
A twin-radial airliner that helped make practical passenger transport a regular business.
A two-seat composite light-aircraft family with a high wing and a compact enclosed cabin.
A heavy transport helicopter whose two large rotors remove the need for a tail rotor.
A late member of the Nieuport V-strut scout family, remembered both as a First World War fighter and as an advanced trainer.
A pressurised single-engine turboprop family that combines a compact cabin with retractable gear.
A low-wing piston family that spans simple trainers, touring aircraft and retractable-gear Arrows.
A compact rear-engined jet designed for short-haul regional airline work.
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