Cessna’s first turboprop was built to fill the space between its cabin-class piston twins and the Citation, and it ended up outrunning most of the turboprop competition. With two Garrett TPE331 engines, a pressurized cabin for six to nine passengers…
More American pilots learned to fly in a Cub than in any other airplane of its era. Piper built the tandem two-seat taildragger in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, from 1938 to 1947, and its fabric-covered steel-tube airframe, 65 hp Continental and…
Speed per gallon has always been the case for the MU-2. A Marquise cruises at around 295 KTAS on roughly 74 gallons an hour for both engines, faster on less fuel than most cabin twins of its era, and it…
Three lifting surfaces, two pusher turboprops and a cabin close to stand-up height make the P.180 Avanti the most recognizable business aircraft on any ramp. Piaggio designed it to fly at light jet speeds on turboprop fuel burn, and it…
Russia’s first all-new airliner after the Soviet era was built around a Western supply chain, and that choice defined both its rise and its stall. The Superjet 100 is a five-abreast, 87 to 103 seat regional jet with full fly-by-wire…
Inverted flight was out of reach for the Citabria line until the 7KCAB arrived with fuel injection and an inverted oil system. Certified in December 1966 and built first by Champion Aircraft and then by Bellanca, it turned a tandem…
Few certified airplanes fly as slowly, or leave the ground as quickly, as the Courier. Automatic leading edge slats, large slotted flaps and a geared Lycoming turning a big propeller let it hold controlled flight near 30 mph and work…
Owning a jet used to mean hiring a crew and paying for a flight department. Cirrus Aircraft set out to remove that barrier with the Cirrus SF50 Vision Jet: one Williams FJ33 turbofan, a carbon fiber airframe and a whole-aircraft…
Few aircraft of any era match the Mustang’s combination of range, speed and staying power. North American Aviation completed the prototype airframe 102 days after the contract was signed in 1940, hung a Packard-built Merlin on the design three years…
Cessna took the retractable-gear 210, fixed the legs down, widened the mission and cut a pair of clamshell cargo doors into the right side of the fuselage. The resulting Cessna 206 Stationair has spent six decades hauling freight, jumpers, survey…
Dutch industry never built a larger airliner than the Fokker 100, and the type has now outlasted the company that made it by three decades. Fokker stretched the F28 Fellowship by 5.7 metres, hung a pair of Rolls-Royce Tay turbofans…
Composite construction, a bubble canopy, and glider-derived aerodynamics made the Diamond DA20 one of the most recognizable two-seat trainers of the past three decades. This low-wing single, first flown in 1991 and built in Canada from 1994, carries a student…
Announced alongside the super-midsize Praetor 600 in October 2018, the Embraer Praetor 500 pushed the midsize class further than it had gone before, pairing full fly-by-wire controls and a six-foot stand-up cabin with the longest range in its segment. Built…
Aviat Aircraft builds a tandem two-seat taildragger around a welded steel tube airframe, a 180 or 200 hp Lycoming and enough wing to leave the ground in roughly 200 feet. That combination puts it on gravel bars and glaciers as…
The Learjet 45 broke that lineage as the brand’s first clean-sheet design, pairing light-jet operating costs with midsize speed and cabin comfort. More than 450 were built between 1998 and 2012, and the type remains a fixture in charter fleets,…
With a range of 4,018 nautical miles, no other super-midsize business jet flies as far. Embraer developed the type from the Legacy 500 and certified it in 2019, pairing that range with full fly-by-wire flight controls, a first in the…
Textron Aviation builds nothing bigger or longer-ranged than the Citation Longitude, the super-midsize flagship of the Citation line. Certified in September 2019, the twin-engine jet pairs Honeywell HTF7700L turbofans with a 28-degree swept wing for 3,500nm of range at Mach…
Few aircraft in the super-midsize category match the G280’s combination of short-field performance and intercontinental range. Gulfstream’s twin-engine jet carries up to 10 passengers at Mach 0.85 and can operate from runways that would ground larger cabin jets making it…
For airlines operating regional aircraft, choosing the right tires is crucial for flight safety, performance, and operational efficiency. ATR aircraft tires, CRJ aircraft tires, and turboprop aircraft tires play a vital role in takeoff, landing, and overall aircraft handling. Selecting…
In aviation, the performance and reliability of Airbus A330 tires are critical to safe and efficient operations. The A330 is a wide-body aircraft widely used for medium- and long-haul flights, and its tires play a key role during takeoff, landing,…
