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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.
An open-cockpit biplane trainer that found a second life in civilian flying.
A DC-10-derived tanker that combined aerial refuelling with passenger and cargo transport.
Tecnam's two-seat, low-wing Sierra, introduced in the early 2000s.
A small open gyroplane with an unpowered rotor and pusher propulsion.
Mooney's four-seat piston family, developed through many touring-aircraft variants.
A Hungarian two-seat light helicopter powered by a Rotax 915 iS.
A compact Japanese twin turboprop with a high wing and pressurised cabin.
A twin-turboprop regional airliner developed through Swedish and American industrial cooperation.
A stretched development of the DC-9 with rear-mounted engines and a five-abreast cabin.
A four-engine military turboprop designed to combine tactical access with long-distance transport.
A two-seat light aircraft with folding wings and a choice of nosewheel or tailwheel gear.
Regional flying built around a high wing, two turboprops and short sectors.
A twin-turboprop utility aircraft developed by Reims Aviation with Cessna.
A twin-radial military transport with a rear ramp and short-field design priorities.
A single-seat aerobatic monoplane that also became a familiar air-racing aircraft.
SOCATA's touring-aircraft family, including the Tobago and Trinidad.
A two-seat touring motorglider with interchangeable wing tips.
A late-war single-seat jet fighter with its engine mounted above the fuselage.
A compact rear-engined jet designed for short-haul regional airline work.
A large long-haul twin that introduced Boeing's first commercial fly-by-wire airliner flight controls.
An amphibious turboprop designed around scooping water and delivering it to fires.
A four-seat touring family whose Commander 114 added a larger engine and further refinements.
A four-engine tactical transport built around a rear loading ramp and access to austere airfields.
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