The Junkers F 13 was the world's first all-metal passenger transport aircraft: a cantilever low-wing monoplane skinned in corrugated duralumin, with an enclosed, heated cabin for four passengers and an open crew position for two. The…
The Fokker F.VII, popularly known as the Fokker Trimotor, was a 1920s airliner produced by the Dutch firm Fokker, by its American subsidiary Atlantic Aircraft Corporation and by several licensees. It carried between six and twelve…
The Lockheed Vega was a closed-cabin high-wing monoplane that Lockheed began building in 1927, and its reputation rested on the speed and range delivered by a wooden monocoque fuselage and a cantilever wing. Amelia Earhart crossed the…
The Dornier Do X was the largest, heaviest and most powerful flying boat in the world when the German firm Dornier completed it in 1929, with twelve engines and room for 66 passengers on long routes. Only three were built: commercial…
First flown on February 8, 1933, the Boeing 247 is regarded as the first modern airliner: an all-metal monoplane with retractable landing gear, an autopilot and de-icing equipment. Only 75 were built, because its very success drove the…
The Douglas DC-2 was an American twin-engined airliner seating fourteen passengers, developed from the DC-1 prototype and a direct rival to the Boeing 247. It flew on 11 May 1934, entered service with TWA a week later and became the basis…
The Short Empire was a four-engined monoplane flying boat developed by Short Brothers in the 1930s for Britain's imperial routes, carrying passengers and mail across two decks. Imperial Airways, BOAC, Qantas and TEAL operated it until…
The Douglas DC-4 was an unpressurized four-engine transport whose production series first flew on February 14, 1942. Mass-produced during the Second World War as the military C-54 Skymaster, it became one of the workhorses of postwar…
The Douglas DC-6 is the piston-engined four-motor airliner with which the Douglas Aircraft Company took on Lockheed in the post-war long-range commercial market. It began as a military order: in 1944 the United States Army Air Forces asked…
The Boeing 377 Stratocruiser, the civil derivative of the C-97 and ultimately of the B-29 bomber, first flew on 8 July 1947 and entered service with Pan American on 1 April 1949. With its double-deck fuselage and lower-deck lounge it…
The Bristol Type 175 Britannia was a British medium-to-long-range turboprop airliner, conceived by the Bristol Aeroplane Company for the Empire routes and universally remembered as "The Whispering Giant" for its quiet exterior noise and…
The Douglas DC-7 was the last large piston-engined airliner built by the Douglas Aircraft Company, produced between 1953 and 1958 as a direct derivative of the DC-6. It answered a very specific request from American Airlines: an aircraft…
The Tupolev Tu-104 is a Soviet medium-range, narrow-body airliner powered by two turbojets. Its historical significance is twofold: it was the second jetliner to enter regular service, after the British de Havilland Comet, and from 1956 to…
The Handley Page HPR.7 Dart Herald was a British regional airliner with a high wing, a pressurised cabin and two Rolls-Royce Dart turboprops, conceived in the mid-1950s as a replacement for the ubiquitous Douglas DC-3 on short routes and…
The Fokker F27 Friendship is a Dutch twin-turboprop regional airliner that first flew on 24 November 1955 and became one of the most successful European airliners of its era. Fokker built 586 aircraft through 1987, and the type was also…
The Ilyushin Il-18 (NATO reporting name «Coot») is a four-engined low-wing turboprop airliner developed by the Soviet Ilyushin design bureau in the mid-1950s to meet an Aeroflot requirement for a medium-range aircraft seating between 75…
The Tupolev Tu-114 Rossiya is a large Soviet turboprop-powered long-range airliner designed by the Tupolev design bureau. In its day it was the largest and fastest passenger aircraft in the world, and also the longest-legged, at 10,900 km.…
First flown on December 6, 1957, the Lockheed L-188 Electra was the first large turboprop airliner built in the United States. Its passenger career proved short, yet the sturdy airframe went on to a long second life hauling cargo and…
The Vickers Vanguard was a British four-engined turboprop airliner for short and medium-range services, designed and produced by Vickers-Armstrongs as the direct successor to the Viscount. It grew out of discussions the manufacturer had…
The Convair 880 was an American narrow-body jet airliner that first flew on 27 January 1959 and entered service with Delta Air Lines in 1960. Marketed on sheer speed, it proved a commercial failure, with only 65 aircraft built.
The Antonov An-24 is a Soviet twin-turboprop regional transport that first flew on 29 October 1959 and entered service in 1962. Designed to operate from rough airstrips, it became one of the most numerous regional aircraft of the Soviet…
The Hawker Siddeley HS 748 was the regional turboprop with which Avro set out to replace the Douglas DC-3 on feeder routes around the world. It flew on 24 June 1960, and a ruggedness aimed at unprepared strips kept it working long after…
The Convair 990 Coronado was the last jet airliner designed and built by Convair, the San Diego division of General Dynamics, and the fastest four-engined passenger jet of its generation. It grew out of a specific request from American…
The Hawker Siddeley Trident is a British short/medium-haul trijet airliner that first flew on 9 January 1962 and entered service with British European Airways on 1 April 1964. A total of 117 were built, and the last examples were retired…
The Vickers VC10 was a British long-range jet airliner designed to operate from the short, hot and high runways of BOAC's route network. It first flew in 1962 and, after its airline career, soldiered on with the Royal Air Force until 2013.
The Ilyushin Il-62 (NATO reporting name «Classic») was the first long-range passenger jet built in the Soviet Union. Conceived in 1960 as a successor to the turboprop Il-18, it is a narrow-body quadjet with its engines paired on either…
The Tupolev Tu-134 is a twin-engined Soviet narrow-body jet airliner with rear-mounted engines and a T-tail, built for short and medium-haul routes between 1966 and 1989. The original version was distinguished by the glazed nose inherited…
The Britten-Norman Islander is a British light utility twin carrying a pilot and up to nine passengers, designed in the 1960s for short-haul work between small and poorly prepared airstrips. It first flew on 13 June 1965, was certified in…
The Yakovlev Yak-40 (Як-40; NATO reporting name "Codling") was the world's first jet airliner designed specifically for local air routes: a straight-winged trijet with a T-tail and retractable tricycle gear, able to work from grass or…
The Fokker F28 Fellowship is a twin-engined short-haul jet airliner designed and built by the Dutch manufacturer Fokker, conceived in the early 1960s as a companion to the turboprop F27 Friendship rather than its replacement. Announced in…
The Boeing 747 was history's first wide-body airliner and, for half a century, the very symbol of intercontinental flight. Nicknamed the "Jumbo", its partial double-deck silhouette made it the most recognisable aircraft ever built:…
The Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner brought the regional market a pressurised 19-seat twin grown out of the Swearingen Merlin business aircraft. It flew on 26 August 1969, entered service in 1972, and its long, narrow fuselage became a…
The CASA C-212 Aviocar is a twin-turboprop light transport with short-field capability, conceived by the Spanish manufacturer CASA to serve military and civil operators alike. It first flew on 26 March 1971 and became the greatest…
The Yakovlev Yak-42 is a narrow-body trijet for mid-range routes and the first Soviet airliner powered by modern high-bypass turbofans. It first flew on 7 March 1975 and began scheduled service on 22 December 1980.
The Ilyushin Il-86 (NATO reporting name «Camber») was the first wide-body airliner built in the Soviet Union. Designed by the Ilyushin bureau during the 1970s in response to the «aerobus» requirement issued by the Ministry of Civil…
The BAe Jetstream was British Aerospace's rework of the small pressurised turboprop inherited from Handley Page. Renamed the Jetstream 31, it flew on 28 March 1980 and became one of the most common 19-seat airliners of the 1980s.
The BAe 146 is a British four-engined high-wing regional jet that first flew on 3 September 1981 and entered service with Dan-Air in 1983. Together with its modernised Avro RJ development, 394 were built, making it the most successful…
The Airbus A310 is a wide-body airliner designed and manufactured by Airbus Industrie GIE, then a consortium of European aerospace manufacturers. It grew out of the recognition that there was demand for an aircraft smaller than the A300,…
The Beechcraft 1900 is the 19-seat regional turboprop with which Beechcraft took the King Air family into scheduled airline work. It flew on 3 September 1982 and was built until October 2002, with 695 aircraft delivered.
The Saab 340 is a Swedish regional airliner: a pressurised twin-engine turboprop laid out for 30 to 36 passengers, developed by Saab AB together with the American manufacturer Fairchild. It was the first major civil aeroplane of a company…
The Fokker 100 — certified as the F28 Mark 0100 — is the Dutch twin-jet with which Fokker tried to hold on to the hundred-seat market through the 1980s and 1990s. Derived from the Fokker F28 Fellowship, it stretched its predecessor's…
The Ilyushin Il-96 is a four-engined long-haul wide-body airliner designed by Ilyushin in the Soviet Union and built by the Voronezh Aircraft Production Association. It is a shortened, longer-ranged and technologically advanced development…
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The ATR 72 is a twin-turboprop short-haul regional airliner developed and built in France and Italy by ATR, and the number in its designation comes from its usual 72-seat layout. It remains in production and in service, and has also been…
The Dornier 328 is a twin-turboprop regional airliner conceived by Dornier Luftfahrt GmbH at Oberpfaffenhofen, near Munich, for a very specific niche: around thirty seats, three-abreast, and performance close enough to a jet that the…
The Saab 2000 is a twin-engined, low-wing, pressurised regional turboprop built at Linköping in Sweden and conceived in the late 1980s as the next size up from the successful Saab 340. Saab committed to the design in December 1988 and…
The Boeing 717 is an American five-abreast narrow-body airliner with two rear-mounted engines, conceived for the 100-seat market. It originated inside McDonnell Douglas in the early 1990s as the MD-95, a shortened derivative of the MD-80…
The Antonov An-148 is a high-wing, twin-turbofan regional jet designed by the Ukrainian bureau Antonov and built on two parallel lines: the Kyiv serial plant AVIANT and the Voronezh Aircraft Production Association (VASO) in Russia, which…
The Airbus A380 is the largest passenger aircraft ever built: the only commercial jet with two full-length decks, carrying more than 500 passengers in typical layouts and certified for up to 853.
It was Europe's great bet on the…
The COMAC ARJ21, rebranded C909 in November 2024, is China's first series-produced commercial jet, a 78- to 90-seat regional twinjet. It first flew on 28 November 2008 and entered service on 28 June 2016 with Chengdu Airlines.
The Sukhoi Su-57 «Felon» is a twin-engine fifth-generation multirole fighter and the first aircraft designed with stealth technology to enter service with the Russian armed forces. It grew out of the PAK FA programme — the Russian acronym…
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