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Below check the specific characteristics of the aircraft you are looking for. You can select multiple items for each characteristic. The results will be filtered automatically. 

The Sabreliner family is the only aircraft with low, swept wings, two jet engines mounted to the rear fuselage and horizontal stabilisers attached to the fuselage. Most aircraft in this configuration have a cruciform tail or T-tail. Also striking is the shape of the cabin windows of the early versions: they are triangular!

North American T-28 Trojan

The T-28 has quite a modern appearance with its metal surfaces, retractable nose gear and bubble tandem canopy, but has a big radial engine in the nose. This gives the Trojan a bit of a stubby appearance.  

North American T-6/SNJ Texan (Harvard)

The North American Texan, outside the USA mainly known as Harvard, is a radial piston powered basic trainer. Characte­ristics are the multi framed tandem canopy, retractable tail wheel landing gear with no main gear doors and a triangular vertical stabiliser with a rudder to the bottom of the rear fuselage.

The appearance of the Buckeye jet trainer is quite typical with its mid-wing configuration, engine(s) in the bottom of the fuselage with exhaust(s) under the rear fuselage, a tall cruciform tail and long main landing gears. It comes in single and twin engine versions.

The combination of a tail boom configu­ration with two T-tails and a two-seat tandem cockpit is quite unusual, but these are the key features to recognise the Bronco small attack and observation aircraft.

The shape of the B-2 is a sight not to forget easily: a flying triangle. The stealth bomber has no horizontal and vertical stabiliser. It is a flying wing, like earlier design from Northrop, but more with a triangle shape than a long wing shape. Also look for the many parallel leading and trailing edges.  

Northrop C-125 Raider

It is not difficult to recognise the Northrop Raider with its three radial engines of which one is placed in the nose. Further­more the outer wings with significant dihedral are striking, as are the long main landing gear legs attached to the wing mounted engine nacelles, quarter circle cockpit side window and front fuselage.

Northrop F-20 Tigershark

Essentially, the F-20 is a single engine version of the F-5, so it has the same features like the trapezium vertical stabiliser with forward swept trailing edge, the canopy being flush with the top of the fuselage and the flat bottom curved top fuselage when viewed from the side. (photo USAF/WikiMedia) 

To recognise the F-5 and T-38 look at the characteristic trapezoidal tail with forward swept trailing edge of the vertical stabiliser, and the two external exhausts pipes. Also the nose and cockpit are typical for this aircraft. The T-38 is the dedicated training version based on the F-5.

Northrop F-89 Scorpion

The Northrop F-89 Scorpion is quite easy to recognise with its big nose, engines in the lower fuselage under the wings, large diameter single wheel main gear, cruciform tail and large tip tanks.