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History of Aviation · The Aircraft · 1919 – 1938

Interwar Aircraft

The biplanes, racers and early monoplanes of the 1920s and 1930s — the experimental years when American military and naval aviation took shape.

Machines of the Air

73 aircraft

1919 – 1938
Fighters · 21
Bombers · 8
Attack Aircraft · 1
Patrol, Recon & Support · 21
Transports · 4
Trainers · 12
Racers & Experimental · 4
Other Aircraft · 2
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