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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. 

Hawker Typhoon/Tempest

The huge engine cooler below the liquid cooled piston engine is the main recognition point of this WW2 fighter. The Typhoon and Tempest have low mounted wings in which the main gear retracts inward. The wing shape differs per version. The same applies to the canopy, as it can have flat panels but also a bubble shape.

Hawker-Siddeley HS121 Trident

Originally developed by deHavilland as DH121 this jet airliner is unique in many ways. Most peculiar is the landing gear: it has a sideways retracting nose gear, slightly off-centre. Moreover it has four wheels on each main landing gear leg but all on one axis! Also distinctive is the last cockpit side window.

The many versions of this first British corporate jet can be recognised from other aircraft types primarily by the tail and dorsal fin. The tail has a cruciform shape with the horizontal stabiliser attached to the vertical stabiliser at about a third from the top. Also characteristic for the whole family is the long, straight dorsal fin ending in a small air intake.

The first practical fighter that could take-off and land vertically has a single jet engine in the centre of the fuselage, with four swiveling exhausts at the side of the fuselage, two on each side. The landing gear comprises a tandem gear with supporting wheels under the wings.

Heinkel He112

The He112 has elliptical wings like the Spitfire, and outward retracting main gears. The wings have a slight inverted gull shape, with a bend near the main gears. The bubble canopy has three frames and the middle part can slide backward. (photo: WikiMedia)

Heinkel He162 Volksjager

The basic configuration with H-tail, high wings and jet engine on top of the fuselage makes the Heinkel Volksjager unique in appearance. Only the Cirrus Vision and Eclipse 400 private jets come close.

Helio Courier

This utility aircraft has a tall, almost straight vertical stabiliser without dorsal fin. The main gear has a single, wide strut connected to the bottom of the fuselage though. It is placed relatively close to the nose. The wings have no struts. (photo: Alan Wilson/WikiMedia)

HESA Saeqeh

This is a development of the F-5 with double vertical stabilisers, from Iran. These vertical stabi­lisers are tilted outward, like on the F/A-18 Hornet. For the rest it still looks like an F-5 with its curved top of fuselage, flush canopy and double visible exhaust pipes. (photo Dara Zarbaf/WikiMedia)

The Hamburger Flugzeugbau HFB320 Hansajet is quite a unique aircraft with its forward swept wings through the fuselage. Also the cockpit windows are typical, with the diagonal frame between front and side windows like on the Beech 400. (photo: Mike Freer/WikiMedia)

Hispano HA-200 Saeta

While most fighter aircraft have engines in the rear fuselage, even though the air intake(s) may be in the nose, the Hispano Saeta has two jet engines placed side-by-side in the nose, with the exhausts below the fuselage just after the wings. For the rest, the aircraft has no very typical characteristics.