19-1 Fox 1/2A Privateer Flying Boat - 36 Inch Wingspan Flying Balsa Wood Model Airplane (ex Berkeley)
Wood Model Kit, Box Condition: Fair+
From the early 1960s. The Privateer was originally a Berkeley design and featured NACA Long Planing Hull Design, preformed engine nacelle, die cut parts, very rugged construction with balsa covered hull, Grade A Balsa, die-cut plywood, covering material, full size plans and more. The kit has never been started. Inventoried and NOTE: missing (1) of (2) parts F10 (bulkhead). One is present so you can easily make a duplicate. Otherwise complete including all other parts, decals and plans. Duke Fox's company 'Fox' was already famous for it's line of reliable model airplane engines and expanded into a line of flying models as well. Berkeley was a very famous manufacture 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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