Grumman G-44 Widgeon ↗
Grumman’s small twin-engine amphibian: a flying boat with retractable wheels and a life spanning wartime service, private travel and seaplane training.
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Grumman’s small twin-engine amphibian: a flying boat with retractable wheels and a life spanning wartime service, private travel and seaplane training.
A large amphibious flying boat built around maritime rescue and utility transport.
A Polish utility aircraft designed for short takeoffs and landings.
A twin-radial airliner that helped make practical passenger transport a regular business.
A self-launching sailplane family with its engine inside the fuselage and a folding nose propeller.
The retractable member of Beechcraft’s Musketeer family: a roomy, four-cylinder travelling aircraft with an unusually large baggage door.
A two-seat naval fighter with variable-sweep wings and a cockpit built around pilot and radar-intercept officer roles.
A tandem-seat homebuilt jet with composite construction and retractable landing gear.
A pressurised four-engine piston transport from the last major generation before the jet airliner.
A British utility twin built around short regional and practical transport work.
A four-abreast regional-jet family spanning the E170, E175, E190 and E195.
A compact two-seat light aircraft with a high wing and a wide range of development variants.
A late-war single-seat jet fighter with its engine mounted above the fuselage.
A stretched development of the DC-9 with rear-mounted engines and a five-abreast cabin.
The JetRanger and LongRanger family: a familiar turbine-helicopter shape with distinct cabin lengths.
A pioneering light helicopter whose bubble cabin and exposed structure became widely recognisable.
The Wilga is the real-aircraft starting point for Mike Patey's DRACO and the simulator's DRACO X.
A composite amphibian that carries Dornier's centreline engine arrangement into the turboprop era.
The second-generation Harrier, designed around vectored thrust and short-field operation.
A compact Italian light twin with a shoulder wing and metal airframe.
A twin-hull flying boat with its engines mounted together above the wing.
A carrier-capable multirole fighter, larger than the earlier Hornet from which it developed.
A late member of the Nieuport V-strut scout family, remembered both as a First World War fighter and as an advanced trainer.
A tandem two-seat sailplane family used for training and cross-country soaring.
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