Berkeley Super Sinbad Sailplane - 62 inch Wingspan Flying Model Airplane Kit, 21-4-495

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Berkeley Super Sinbad Sailplane - 62 inch Wingspan Flying Model Airplane Kit, 21-4-495 plastic model kit

21-4-495 Berkeley Super Sinbad Sailplane - 62 inch Wingspan Flying Model Airplane Kit

Wood Model Kit,   Box Condition: Exc++

One of the very last Berkeley kits, dated 1960 and has the Fox 'Fort Smith Arkansas' address. Part of the famous 'Sinbad' series tow-line gliders from Berkeley. Includes the patented 'Tow Control' rudder system. Big 62 inch wingspan - idea for RC. Features all die cut parts, full size plans and silk-span covering. The model has not been started. The parts are either in factory sealed bag(s) or inventoried 100% complete with all parts and instructions. Berkeley is a very famous manufacturer of flying model kits from the Golden Age of flying aviation, about 1932-1954. Founded in 1933 by William Effinger, the company was quite progressive in producing quality kits - it was likely the Berkeley 'Buccaneer' was the first gas powered model in kit form. In the later 1930s, Effinger acquired the services of a very talented Henry Struck. Struck went on to design numerous award-winning kits under the Berkeley name. Berkeley weathered the post WWII recession and emerged as a major kit producer in the late 1940 and 1950s. These were great years for Berkeley and they produced some incredible and large kits. The company went bankrupt in about 1960 however. Fox engines (Duke Fox) bought the company and released the kits alongside his own FOX models and engines. This arrangement did not last, and in the early 1960s the Berkeley name disappeared from hobby shop shelves.

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