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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 pioneering all-metal transport with an enclosed passenger cabin and corrugated skin.
A compact regional turboprop with a pressurised cabin for up to 19 passengers.
A 1920s transport family that developed from a single-engine airliner into a trimotor.
A low-wing piston twin that carries the Beechcraft touring-aircraft lineage into two-engine flying.
A modern open-cockpit light aircraft that revives the corrugated-metal style of the 1929 A50.
A two-seat composite trainer with a low wing and a large canopy.
A single-engine utility helicopter known as the Écureuil, Squirrel and AStar.
The H130 utility helicopter, descended from the AS350 and fitted with a Fenestron.
A compact Italian light twin with a shoulder wing and metal airframe.
A regional turboprop family whose short early versions and larger Q400 have different proportions and systems.
A full-length double-deck airliner built for very high passenger capacity.
A lightweight short-field aircraft with a specialised wing and tall, shock-absorbing landing gear.
A twin-turbine Huey descendant with a four-blade main rotor.
Ted Smith's piston twin, later produced by Piper as the Aerostar.
A large long-haul twin that introduced Boeing's first commercial fly-by-wire airliner flight controls.
A single-engine turboprop workhorse for passenger services, freight and remote-area transport.
A carbon-fibre aerobatic monoplane family with a dedicated air-racing branch.
A rear-engined trijet built to bring jet service to shorter routes and smaller airports.
A very large single-engine biplane designed for practical work from modest airfields.
A pressurised single turboprop with a large cargo door and a broad range of working roles.
A Brazilian light trainer with a high wing, tandem seats and a simple utility layout.
An enclosed-cabin development of the Bell 47, shaped for passenger and executive transport.
A retractable-gear touring single with an all-metal airframe and a long-lived enthusiast following.
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