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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 lightweight short-field aircraft with a specialised wing and tall, shock-absorbing landing gear.
A light turbine helicopter whose land-based Scout and naval Wasp branches served different jobs.
A fixed-wing observation aircraft with a helicopter-like view from its glazed nose.
The retractable member of Beechcraft’s Musketeer family: a roomy, four-cylinder travelling aircraft with an unusually large baggage door.
A compact two-seat light aircraft with a high wing and a wide range of development variants.
A two-seat light amphibian with a compact boat hull and a pusher propeller.
A six-seat composite single turboprop with a pressurised cabin and retractable gear.
A swept-wing business jet designed around high subsonic cruise speed.
The purpose-built Ryan monoplane used by Charles Lindbergh for his 1927 solo Atlantic crossing.
A 1920s transport family that developed from a single-engine airliner into a trimotor.
A modern open-cockpit light aircraft that revives the corrugated-metal style of the 1929 A50.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
A six-engine flying boat created for long-distance passenger travel over water.
A long-range fighter whose different engine and canopy developments produced several distinct forms.
A British utility twin built around short regional and practical transport work.
The Model 525 CitationJet, the starting point of Cessna's CJ and M2 lineage.
Lockheed's tandem-seat Shooting Star jet trainer.
A wooden touring-aircraft family recognisable by the upward-angled outer wing panels.
A personal jet with one engine above the rear fuselage and a distinctive V-tail.
Cessna's retractable-gear Centurion, a high-wing touring aircraft.
A stretched development of the DC-9 with rear-mounted engines and a five-abreast cabin.
A Canadian tandem-seat trainer developed after the Second World War.
A compact rear-engined jet designed for short-haul regional airline work.
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