Aircraft: 1980s

Aircraft models with their history, specifications and variants.

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Ad Meskens (CC BY SA), vía commons
JetPix (GFDL), vía commons
Mike Freer - Touchdown-aviation (GFDL), vía commons
Mike Freer - Touchdown-aviation (GFDL), vía commons
Clive R Martin from Addlestone Surrey, England (CC BY SA), vía commons
Airliner · 1980
BAe Jetstream
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.
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Extrapolaris (CC BY SA), vía commons
Attack · 1981
Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk
The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk was the world's first operational aircraft designed from the outset around low observability: a single-seat, subsonic, twin-engined attack aircraft built by Lockheed's Skunk Works division and flown exclusively…
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Bidgee (CC BY SA), vía commons
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Michel Huhardeaux (CC BY SA), vía commons
Julien.scavini (CC BY SA), vía commons
Quintin Soloviev (CC BY), vía commons
Airliner · 1981
BAe 146
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…
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Aero Icarus from Zürich, Switzerland (CC BY SA), vía commons
Aero Icarus from Zürich, Switzerland (CC BY SA), vía commons
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DLR (CC BY), vía commons
Airliner · 1982
Airbus A310
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,…
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Airliner · 1982
Beechcraft 1900
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.
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Airliner · 1983
Saab 340
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…
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Clay Gilliland (CC BY SA), vía commons
Ken Fielding (CC BY SA), vía commons
Airliner · 1986
Fokker 100
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…
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Dmitry Terekhov from Odintsovo, Russian Federation (CC BY SA), vía commons
Toshi Aoki - JP Spotters (CC BY SA), vía commons
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Airliner · 1988
Ilyushin Il-96
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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Yakitaki26 (Lorenzo Ambrino, avphotos) (CC BY SA), vía commons
John Robert McPherson (CC BY SA), vía commons
Giuseppe.stuppiello (CC BY SA), vía commons
CeeGee (CC BY SA), vía commons
Airliner · 1988
ATR 72
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…
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Bomber · 1989
Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit
The Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit is a subsonic, nuclear-capable stealth strategic bomber flown exclusively by the United States Air Force. It is a pure flying wing — no distinct fuselage, no tail — of lambda planform, powered by four…
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Aircraft: 1980s

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