A big seller in the twentieth century – these ‘official’ Schabak model airplanes where available in airport duty free stores & on-board passenger shopping catalogs.
The idea was a ‘keepsake’ of your trip & the aircraft that carried you – this collection is just that…
Introduced to us as “Uncle’s collection. He travelled a lot for work, you see”
These planes cover the early years of this collection – 1960-1979
Douglas DC8 – first produced: 1958
Boeing 707 – first produced 1967
BA Concorde – maiden flight 1969
Douglas DC-10 – maiden flight 1970
Lockheed L1011 – first produced 1972
Boeing 737/200 – first produced 1974
NB. These are 1:600 scale – none longer than 10cm
