12-8 Berkeley Falcon 35 - 50 Inch Wingspan Stunt Controliner Flying Model Airplane Kit
Wood Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
Large high quality kit with a big 50" Wingspan. This is an excellent kit for .15 to .35 size engines and features full-span spars, machine milled leading edge, one piece slab sided fuselage, clear plastic canopy (in 'very good condition'), complete hardware packet, silkspan covering and superbly detailed full size plans. The model has not been started. The hardware is still in factory sealed bag; all other parts have been inventoried 100% complete. Includes decals and plans/instructions. NOTE: this kit is in a very sturdy box; it will ship once the top and bottom are lined with cardboard and wrapped with brown paper. If you wish, it can be placed into another box for shipping. If you specify this, additional shipping charges will apply. Berkeley is a very famous manufacturer of flying model kits from the Golden Age of flying aviation, about 1932-1954. Most all Berkeley kits contain a high degree of prefabrication to speed up assembly. 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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