19-4 Berkeley Privateer Super 15 Flying Boat - 60 Inch Wingspan Flying Aircraft For R/C
Wood Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
Rare, very large wingspan R/C model for .09 to .15 engines. Features precision cut wood parts, shaped trailing edges, NACA 'Long Planing Hull' design, all sheet balsa fuselage, self-draining hull and sponsons, beautiful stamped metal nacelle, hardware pack, covering material, full sized plans, decal and more. Never started. The hardware pack is still factory sealed and all other parts have been inventoried complete including the paperwork. 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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