The Yak-50 was designed by Sergei Yakovlev and Y Yankevitch as an improved aerobatic aircraft to succeed the Yak-18 series at the 1976 World Aerobatic Championships which were held that year in the city of Kiev in the Ukraine.

In October 1944 the British Ministry of Aircraft Production issued a specification for a short/medium haul airliner and VICkers produced the Viking, the first of three prototypes (G-AGOK) designated Type 491 being flown on 22 June 1945 at Wisley.

The workhorse of the German Luftwaffe in the transport role during World War II, the prototype Ju-52/ba (D-1974)

The DH.84 Dragon was introduced to the de Havilland range of light aircraft in 1933, the prototype (E9 - c/n 6000 – later G-ACAN) having flown for the first time on 12 November 1932, later going to Hillman Airways Ltd as Maylands. Designed by A E Hagg, it was a

Designed initially as a military freighter capable of operating from hot, semi-prepared landing areas with a payload of between four and five tonnes, and the ability to load and unload freight quickly through clam-shell doors in the nose, the Bristol Freighter proved to be reasonably popular with some 214 examples