April 25, 2024
Smer 107 Avro 504K British WWI biplane aircraft, 1/50 plastic model kit
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PLEASE READ BEFORE BIDDING THIS KIT IS COMPLETE, UNSTARTED. Vintage issue of 1980s. All parts completed and uncut. ITEM DOESN'T INCLUDE CEMENT AND PAINTS. THE BOX IS IN THE POOR CONDITION. Made in Czechoslovakia. ************************************************************************************** The Avro 504 was a World War I biplane aircraft made by the Avro aircraft company and under licence by others. Production during the War totalled 8,970 and continued for almost 20 years, making it the most-produced aircraft of any kind that served in World War I, in any military capacity, during that conflict. Over 10,000 were built from 1913 to the time production ended in 1932. The embryonic air service of the Soviet Union just after World War I used both original Avro 504s, and their own Avrushka copy of it for primary training as the U-1 in the early 1920s, usually powered with Russian-made copies of the Gnome Monosoupape rotary engine - this Russian version of the 504 was replaced by what would become the most produced biplane in all of aviation history, the Polikarpov Po-2 , first known as the U-2 in Soviet service in the late 1920s, as the 504's direct replacement. 504K Two-seat training aircraft. The 504K had a universal mount to take different engines. Single-seat fighter conversion used for anti-zeppelin work. Several
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