Berkeley 1/12 Aeronca Sedan Land or Seaplane Flying Model Airplane Kit

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Berkeley 1/12 Aeronca Sedan Land or Seaplane Flying Model Airplane Kit plastic model kit

1/12 Berkeley Aeronca Sedan Land or Seaplane Flying Model Airplane Kit

Wood Model Kit,   Box Condition: Good

Big 1/12 scale model with a 35.25 inch wingspan. Originally designed as a gas powered model for free flight or control line, it can be converted to electric power and modern R/C (radio control). Includes all parts to build as a landplane but includes plans and instructions for seaplane and floats. Features numerous die-cut and perfabricated wooden parts, strip stock as required, formed wire landing gear, completely finished wheels, die-cut clear windshield and side windows, a large decal sheet, covering material, full size plans and more. The model has not been started. Inventoried complete with all parts, decals and plans present. 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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