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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 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.
The four-engine wide-body whose raised flight deck created one of aviation's most recognisable profiles.
A pioneering all-metal transport with an enclosed passenger cabin and corrugated skin.
A light tandem-seat taildragger built around the familiar braced high-wing layout.
A side-by-side military trainer with a low wing and fixed tricycle landing gear.
A wartime fighter developed from the earlier Curtiss P-36.
A two-seat naval fighter with variable-sweep wings and a cockpit built around pilot and radar-intercept officer roles.
A corrugated-metal, three-engine transport from the formative years of airline travel.
A tandem two-seat sailplane family used for training and cross-country soaring.
A composite, low-wing touring single with fixed gear and a turbocharged engine.
A First World War trainer that became a familiar sight in the barnstorming era.
A late member of the Nieuport V-strut scout family, remembered both as a First World War fighter and as an advanced trainer.
A long-range trijet developed from the DC-10 with a stretched fuselage and revised wing and cockpit.
A large twin-engine helicopter from the Super Puma line, used for offshore and public-service work.
A single-engine turboprop workhorse for passenger services, freight and remote-area transport.
A two-seat light aircraft with folding wings and a choice of nosewheel or tailwheel gear.
A vast inter-war flying boat with twelve engines arranged in six paired installations.
A four-engine airliner whose history also includes long-range maritime military service.
A modern utility single whose family includes both tailwheel and nosewheel configurations.
A radial-engined light transport whose long career covered passengers, freight and military training.
The Model 525 CitationJet, the starting point of Cessna's CJ and M2 lineage.
A Brazilian light trainer with a high wing, tandem seats and a simple utility layout.
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