Commercial Aircraft
The commercial aviation industry has been largely evolved thanks to developments in the military realm.
There are a total of 60 Commercial Aircraft in the Military Factory. Entries are listed below in alphanumeric order. Flag images indicative of country of origin.
1969
One of the great aviation stories to come out of a post-Cold War world, the British and French-made Concorde stands as the on...
1975
The AS350 was originally designed to replace the aging Sud Aviation / Aerospatiale Alouette II light utility helicopter serie...
1976
The British-Italian helicopter concern of AgustaWestland developed their AW109 model of 1971 as a commercial-level passenger-...
1972
The A300-600 and A310 share a high percentage of commonality in terms of airframe design and construction (decreasing mainten...
1983
The Airbus A310-300 was produced as a budgeted alternative to the based A300-series (detailed elsewhere on this web site) at ...
2003
The French concern of Airbus unveiled their new A320 commercial aircraft family line in March of 1984 and eventually expanded...
1993
The Airbus A340 series was already in design and development alongside the similar A330 series. In that respect, the two syst...
2014
The A350 is the latest Airbus contribution to the competitive wide-body, long-range airliner market. The aircraft is intended...
1917
With production numbering over 6,000 total units, the Airco / de Havilland DH.4 was another one of Geoffrey de Havilland's su...
1947
The Antonov An-2 is a multi-role light utility biplane initially produced under the Soviet flag. Despite its 1940's pedigree,...
1962
The An-24 "Coke" was yet another in the long line of military transport aircraft produced during the Cold War by the Antonov ...
1936
The impressive Armstrong Whitworth Ensign AW.27 series was made originally designed to a 1934 British government requirement ...
1918
The Kangaroo was the product of the Blackburn Aeroplane and Motor Company, Limited. The design began as a venture in 1916 to ...
1939
The Boeing Model 314 "Clipper" was a flying boat developed by Boeing Aircraft Company to fulfill a Pan American requirement f...
1955
The 707 model series for The Boeing Company proved to be the catalyst for their commercial market successes to come. The 707 ...
1983
The 757-series airliner began as a 1970s Boeing endeavor to replace their aging 727 three-engined "trijet" airliner model. Th...
1995
Throughout the 1970s, the Boeing Company operated the mammoth 747 four-engined, "wide-body" long-range jet airliner. In 1978,...
2012
The 787 "Dreamliner" represents Boeing's latest foray into the world of commercial passenger air travel. To this point, the p...
1936
Cantieri Riuniti dell'Adriatico ("CANT") was responsible for the excellent Italian floatplane design that was the CANT Z.506 ...
1936
Maritime aircraft play an understated role, especially in that of war time. Fly boats came to pass, first in peace-time devel...
1937
The Dornier Do 17 was a medium-class bomber fielded primarily by the German Luftwaffe in the years leading up to World War 2....
1917
The Friedrichshafen G.III was a medium bi-plane class bomber utilized by the German Empire in World War 1 and designed by the...
1937
While most every aircraft venture usually began with a military requirement or private venture undertaken by a manufacturer f...
1933
The Heinkel 70 (Blitz) was originally born out of a need for a speedy aeroplane charged with "fast" mail delivery for the Deu...
1975
The Ilyushin IL-76 heavy transport was debuted in the early 1970s, entered service in the mid-1970s and is still operating to...
1945
The Lockheed Constellation series of aircraft was a successful design that initially began as a militarized transport, appear...
2014
Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant holds a long-running history of rotary-wing aircraft design and development, its first successful...
1953
The broad-reaching Mil Mi-4 series of helicopter (known to NATO as "Hound") first appeared in 1952 and was designed within th...
1962
The Mil Mi-6 was an inventory stalwart for the Soviet Union and its allies during the Cold War. For a time, the Mi-6 represen...
1967
Numbering well over 12,000 production examples, the Mil Mi-8 (NATO reporting name of "Hip") can be viewed as one of the most ...
1942
The Piaggio P.108 was a multi-faceted airframe developed to fulfill a variety of roles for the Italians during World War 2. S...
1954
The H-34 Choctaw was a multi-purpose, radial-powered utility helicopter produced by Sikorsky in the United States. It was dev...
1972
The Tupolev concern of Russia holds an aviation history dating as far back as 1926, having since established a name in large ...
1919
The Vimy was designed to a Royal Air Force (RAF) requirement for a night bomber with inherently long endurance intended to re...
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