Aviation History

U.S. water ski champion Bruce Parker wows the crowd as he’s pulled by a Luscombe Model 8 aircraft across Biscayne Bay near Miami, Florida, in 1946.

A Tupolev Tu-144 supersonic transport jet lifts off the runway at Russia’s Zhukovsky Air Development Center in September 1998.

A wind tunnel model representing the Cessna Citation X is evaluated by NASA.

A Yuneec E430 on display at EAA AirVenture in 2009.

An overview of the history of Gulfstream Aerospace and the various aircraft models that the company developed between the 1950s and the present day.