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Initially located in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania the company marketed a wide range of kit aircraft and achieved considerable commercial success, delivering over 3000 aircraft. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 7 ] In 1999 the company was sold to a group of investors, moved to London, Kentucky and renamed The New Kolb Aircraft Company .
Golden Ade Hobby Kits (Ukraine) - brand of Olimp Models; Gran (Russia) Grand Phoenix Model Products (USA) Great Wall Hobby (China) Greenbank Castle (USA) Greenmax (Japan) Griffon (Japan) - Only produced one kit (Su-22 in 1/72nd scale) before disappearing. Grip (Japan) - ex-Eidai; Gunze Sangyo (Japan) Hapdong Tech (Korea)
An example of high-end homebuilt design is Lancair, which has developed a number of high-performance kits. The most powerful is the Lancair Propjet, a four-place kit with cabin pressurization and a turboprop engine, cruising at 24,000 feet (7,300 m) and 370 knots (425 mph, 685 km/h). Although aircraft such as this are considered "home-built ...
The Bachmann-Fujimi models would be dropped during the 1970s. Bachmann dropped Slot Cars and Mini-Planes from its product lines after the Kader takeover (see below) but instead entered the Radio-controlled model market. [20] In 1982 they revived their Nature Craft Kits as Birds of the World. [21]
The growing model kit industry led the company to start a new armour series, using the atypical and new 1:72 scale, usually used for planes, in contrast to the standard 1:76 scale. The dimensional consistency with the aircraft scale made their armour scale choice popular, thanks to a high level of quality that allowed ESCI to become one of the ...
Accurate Miniatures is an American manufacturer of scale plastic model kits. It is owned by Collins-Habovick, LLC and is located in Concord, North Carolina , United States. Their products primarily consist plastic model airplane kits from World War II , though they also make model kits of planes and automobiles from other eras.
Frog was a well-known British brand of flying model aircraft and scale model construction kits from the 1930s to the 1970s. The company's first model, an Interceptor Mk. 4, was launched in 1932, followed in 1936 by a range of 1:72 scale model aircraft kits made from cellulose acetate , which were the world's first.
Tamiya entered the 1/72 market rather late by releasing its first kit in 1993 (see kit 60701). [23] However, this was a reboxed version of Italeri's F-16 and it would take until 2014 to design their own version of this jet (see kit 60786). Tamiya quickly got a large product line in this scale by reboxing more than 30 Italeri kits.