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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 DC-10-derived tanker that combined aerial refuelling with passenger and cargo transport.
A pressurised single turboprop with a large cargo door and a broad range of working roles.
A retractable-gear touring single with an all-metal airframe and a long-lived enthusiast following.
A low-wing piston family that spans simple trainers, touring aircraft and retractable-gear Arrows.
A corrugated-metal transport best known in its three-engine form.
A late-1930s cabin aircraft with metal construction and retractable landing gear.
A two-seat training single with a high wing and fixed tricycle landing gear.
Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
A lightweight pusher family with an enclosed cabin and a high, braced wing.
An amphibious turboprop designed around scooping water and delivering it to fires.
A two-seat touring motorglider with interchangeable wing tips.
A small two-seat piston helicopter with a two-bladed main rotor.
Ted Smith's piston twin, later produced by Piper as the Aerostar.
A Swedish reconnaissance and dive-bombing aircraft from the early 1940s.
An advanced trainer known around the world as the Texan, Harvard and SNJ.
A twin-aisle Boeing designed alongside the 757's generation of two-pilot flight decks.
A tandem-seat canard homebuilt with a pusher engine and distinctive winglets.
A cabin-class piston twin designed for commuter, cargo and utility work.
A four-seat touring family whose Commander 114 added a larger engine and further refinements.
A 1920s transport family that developed from a single-engine airliner into a trimotor.
A side-by-side touring motorglider used for both powered flying and soaring.
A three-engine airliner that became a mainstay of Soviet and Russian passenger transport.
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