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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.
The Huey: a turbine-powered utility helicopter with a broad cabin and an unmistakable two-bladed rotor.
A single-seat helicopter originally developed as a homebuilt kit.
A corrugated-metal, three-engine transport from the formative years of airline travel.
A late-1930s cabin aircraft with metal construction and retractable landing gear.
A twin-engine utility helicopter with roots in the BK 117 and EC145 families.
A compact aerobatic biplane family with both single-seat and tandem-seat branches.
A low-wing agricultural Cessna with a cockpit and hopper arranged around the job.
A four-seat, pressurised kit aircraft with a composite airframe and retractable landing gear.
A carbon-fibre aerobatic monoplane family with a dedicated air-racing branch.
The purpose-built Ryan monoplane used by Charles Lindbergh for his 1927 solo Atlantic crossing.
A retractable-gear touring single with an all-metal airframe and a long-lived enthusiast following.
Ted Smith's piston twin, later produced by Piper as the Aerostar.
A six-engine flying boat created for long-distance passenger travel over water.
Airbus's first production aircraft, built around a twin-engine wide-body layout.
A compact regional turboprop with a pressurised cabin for up to 19 passengers.
A five-seat composite single whose development led to the diesel DA50 RG.
A composite, low-wing touring single with fixed gear and a turbocharged engine.
A medium commercial helicopter designed for passenger and utility transport.
A wooden touring-aircraft family recognisable by the upward-angled outer wing panels.
A long-haul twin whose family spans passenger, freight and specialist transport roles.
A self-launching sailplane family with its engine inside the fuselage and a folding nose propeller.
A 1920s transport family that developed from a single-engine airliner into a trimotor.
A military liaison aircraft built around a high wing, tandem cabin and short-field utility work.
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