Berkeley North American P-51 Mustang - 37 Inch Wingspan Flying Aircraft

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Berkeley North American P-51 Mustang - 37 Inch Wingspan Flying Aircraft plastic model kit

Berkeley North American P-51 Mustang - 37 Inch Wingspan Flying Aircraft

Wood Model Kit,   Box Condition: VG+

Designed to be 'The First And Last Word In Control Line Gas Models'. True scale 'Controliner' Model for U-Control with Berkeley Autotrol feature. Large 1/12 size. Has a host of impressive features. 'Autotrol' acts as an automatic pilot by automatically compensating for wind gusts with rudder and elevator. Also includes trim control, automatic landing gear and tail wheel operations, throttle control, plastic bubble canopy, automatic wing flaps, inflatable air wheels, formed wire landing gear, aluminum spinner and more. 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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