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A-Model to release a 1/72 Beech Starship.

PostPosted: Mon May 05, 2014 8:07 am
by Tony P
About time there was an injected kit of one of my favourite aircraft.
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I'll probably do paint masks as well for this kit.

Now if only they can do another of Burt Rutan's fantastic design, the boomerang:
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Re: A-Model to release a 1/72 Beech Starship.

PostPosted: Mon May 05, 2014 9:40 am
by Knotty
Ripper Tony , about time they did some GA aircraft in a decent scale .

Re: A-Model to release a 1/72 Beech Starship.

PostPosted: Mon May 05, 2014 6:27 pm
by davecana
Agree about the plane. A good plane killed by bureaucracy. Might have to buy a kit or 2.

Re: A-Model to release a 1/72 Beech Starship.

PostPosted: Mon May 05, 2014 6:35 pm
by Knotty
There is a Starship at the Sunshine Coast Airport , not sure if it is a goer or not . Ray and I saw about 7 of these at Avra Vally airport in Arizona parked in a very neat line . They looked like they had been there a while :( :(

Re: A-Model to release a 1/72 Beech Starship.

PostPosted: Mon May 05, 2014 10:27 pm
by davecana
Knotty wrote:There is a Starship at the Sunshine Coast Airport , not sure if it is a goer or not . Ray and I saw about 7 of these at Avra Vally airport in Arizona parked in a very neat line . They looked like they had been there a while :( :(

It's owned by Queensland Institute for Aviation Engineering. I don't think it's airworthy though, only used for training, but I'm not sure about that.

Re: A-Model to release a 1/72 Beech Starship.

PostPosted: Mon May 05, 2014 10:37 pm
by VH-WAL
I thought Beech bought them all back and grounded them so they no longer have to support the airframe? I could be wrong (often am)

Re: A-Model to release a 1/72 Beech Starship.

PostPosted: Tue May 06, 2014 6:46 am
by davecana
wally wrote:I thought Beech bought them all back and grounded them so they no longer have to support the airframe? I could be wrong (often am)

Correct for the most part. Beech bought most of them back, but they couldn't force private owners to sell back, so some are still around. Beech stopped supporting the airframe at the same time, don't know whether it was because they bought most of them back, or to force the sale of them.

Re: A-Model to release a 1/72 Beech Starship.

PostPosted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 7:46 am
by Tony P
Not cheap. $50 at the Big H.