1/12 Berkeley Interstate Cadet - 35 Inch Wingspan For R/C or Free Flight
Wood Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
Big, flying 1/12 true scale model designed for gas power, free flight or control line, but can be converted to electric power and modern R/C (radio control) operation. Features high quality printwood, factory-cut balsa blocks, other blocks as required, fully formed metal landing gear struts & braces, fully formed wheels, formed wire propeller shaft/rubber hook, sealed tube of wood glue, a factory-sealed wax paper bag of hardware, a rough-carved propeller blank, clear windshield and cabin window material, 6 sheets of extensive decals and more. The kit has never been started. The small hardware parts are still in the factory sealed wax paper bag; all other parts have been inventoried complete and includes decals and 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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