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LSP_Kevin

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Come on guys, there are plenty of opportunities to have a military aircraft with civil scheme and registration number, if you do not want to have a "pure" civil aircraft like a glider or a Revell Pup.

 

Some examples from the top of my mind :

The Spitfire and the Sea Fury had civilian registered examples, not wearing a warbird camo

Just looking at Red Bull aircrafts, you will find a P-38, a T-6, an Alpha-jet, a MiG-17, a L-39, a glass-nosed B-25, etc.

Starfighters are used by the NASA, as well as a company aptly named Starfighters

The French used B-17 Gs, with civil regs, for their map survey work for the Institut Géographique National

You have the obvious racers : P-51s (without going to the extreme mods of Strega or Red Baron), P-39, P-63, T-6, Tony LeViers's P-38

Helos : I suspect most helos kitted can have a civilian scheme. Even the Huskie was used for firefighting and lumber work (there is even a Red Bull UH-1 Cobra ;) )

Fire watch OV-10s

Tiger Moths by the dozens

There is a Swedish civilian Arado 196, with the decals supplied in 1/32 by Kagero in their book about the Arado

There were some Supermarine Walruses used after the world for whaling activities

I know of at least two civilian Mosquitoes, one CF-FZG was a Canadian-built B-30, i.e. basically a Mk IV, the other a Mk Vi converted to racer in Australia. And then there were those operated by this Canadian Company I can't remember the name of right now ...

 

And this is just what sprang to my mind in 5 minutes. Admittedly, you will find it harder to produce a civil Me-109. But plenty others than LW aircrafts were thus recycled to civilian use. So a bit of searching wil get you past the apparent hurdle, without trying to bend the rules by looking at para-military organisations.

 

Please, I am sure others will add to my list.

 

Hubert

 

Hubert,

Thanks for that list! 

Spartan Air Services in Canada had many Mosquitos in beautiful civilian markings, plus P-38s and I think a Lanc too!

The last Hurricane flew many years for Hawker in civil markings too, actually serving as chase plane for the Harrier  (if my memory is correct...).

Alain

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Kevin, Would a C47 trumpeter on the 1/48 scale be eligible? I know it does not meet the requirement to be 1/35 and up, but it certainly gives a large plane model.

Thanks, Paulo.

 

Sorry but no,  we are very strict on keeping the site 1/35 or larger as it is Large Scale Planes not just large planes. 

 

Ron

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Count me in with something. Ive got these decals for a MKIX Spitfire:

http://www.rammodels.co.uk/product_info.php/cPath/71_34/products_id/207

 

Ive also got a Revell Cub in the stash as well as a Revell EC145 and a couple of Revells glider kits. Once i know what im building ill start a thread.

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Ok guys, we're into the last few hours of this Group Build. Thanks all for participating.  We were perhaps a little light on for completions, but there was certainly a lot of work put into some models in progress, so if you'd like your in progress thread moved, please contact one of the LSP_ mods.

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