Berkeley 1/16 Lockheed P-38 Lightning Controliner - 41 Inch Wingspan Flying Aircraft, 8-4

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Berkeley 1/16 Lockheed P-38 Lightning Controliner - 41 Inch Wingspan Flying Aircraft, 8-4 plastic model kit

1/16 8-4 Berkeley Lockheed P-38 Lightning Controliner - 41 Inch Wingspan Flying Aircraft

Wood Model Kit,   Box Condition: VG

From the 1950s and very rare, Large, true scale model in the agreed museum scale of 1/16 and designed for two engine operation. For .14 to .36 displacement gas engines for control line or can be converted to electric power. Highly prefabricated and features carved and hollowed fuselage and nacelles, die-cut balsa and plywood parts, formed wire landing gear, rubber wheels, metal hardware, formed clear plastic bubble canopy (in 'excellent' condition, not yellowed), full size plans and more. Never started. The small parts are still in the factory sealed bag; the parts that were never sealed have been inventoried present. Includes plans but NOTE: missing decals. 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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