An airplane-loving design student’s senior project gave rise to a family business dedicated to building scaled replica fighters “the right way.” ScaleBirds is a Groton, Connecticut-based company with plans to offer affordable kits for radial- and inline-engined mini-fighters—engineered as sport planes with a high “fun” quotient.
Home Air Shows & Events Sun 'N Fun ScaleBirds Radial-Powered Curtiss P-36 60% Replica – Sun ‘n Fun 2022
ScaleBirds Radial-Powered Curtiss P-36 60% Replica – Sun ‘n Fun 2022
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Great looking plane. Cost of kit?
Pricing is still tentative, but projected to be high-20s – low 30s. They are launching a reduced-price Beta program for experienced builders to refine the production process for the kits.
If you order it with the guns can you get wing mounted ones instead of the nose mounted ones shown?
The P-36 came with cowl-mounted guns. I’d assume the inline P-40 would have wing-mounted gun fairings (made of fiberglass).
P-40B has cowl mounted guns also.