An Aviation Enthusiast´s Kit Collection Home How it All Began 50´s & 60´s 1970 up Various Topics Books Contact       Airfix Kits 1970 up Other Airfix Kits from the 50's and 60's  back to Airfix Airfix Kits I Remember I list here Aifix kits I remember to have built in my youth from the late 1950´s to the late 1960´s . The kits are arranged to my personal preference. This is no complete list of Airfix kits. An excellent listing of Airfix kits with much background information is compiled in the CD Airfix Collectors Guide. Highly recommended ! The date of first issue by Airfix I quote below is taken from this source. I will indicate the package style with every picture I place below. I use the classifications of packaging styles which are explained in detail in the highly recommended website Collecting Airfix Kits. Though I remember clearly the type of aircraft or ship I had in my youth and the color of the plastic I do not at all remember the packing style. So I either estimate what it could have been from the date,  choose  one I like today or show a choice of two.  Airfix Kits I remember Three packaging styles are relevant here: Type 0 (boxes only) Type 1 (header cards only) Type 2, and Type 3 (header and box). Type 2 style header cards was introduced in about 1959/60. Type 3 header cards were introduced in the Autumn of 1963 and lasted into the 1970s. Type 3 boxes was used 1963-1973. Plasty repacked Airfix kits for distribution in Germany. They used  T 1 header cards of own design and packed bags in various trays. These will appear in the list, too, especially as the early kits I remember must have been from Plasty. Kit (Designation as on Airfix Issue) Remarks (Airfix in context with other brands see  How it All Began). First issued by Airfix   Type My first kits         Ferguson Tractor Together with the Westland S 55 this may be one of my first kit proper.   Plasty T 1 Westland S 55 Together with the Ferguson tractor this may be one of my first kit proper. 1956 Plasty T  1 Westland Lysander  In my memory I perceived this kit and the S6b (see below) as kits to have to be assembled and glued toghether and perceived them as individual types of aircraft.  1956 Plasty T  1 Supermarine S.6 b Racer   1957 Plasty T  1 Fokker Triplane Dr.1   1957 Plasty T  1 Hawker Typhoon 1959 T 2 In the recollection of my memories the brand Airfix is firmly associated with these kits of airliners and bombers.         Bristol Supefreihter I'm  shure I had the T 2 box. Type 3 box came with British United decals, whereas mine had definels Silver City decals. 1959 T 2 De Havilland Heron     T 2 Fokker F-27 Friendship     T 2 Douglas C-47 Dakota   1960   T 2 Short Sunderland III I'm quite shure I had the T 2 box. 1959 T 2 Bristol 192   1959 T 2 Vickers Wellingon B III     T 2 Avro Lancaster B1     T 2 Dornier Do-217         Boeing B-17G   1962 T 2 Boeing B-17G     T 3 Consolidated B-24D Liberator         The ships         H.M.S Nelson   1961 T 2 H.M.S. Hood   1960 T 2 Bismark   1962 T 2 HMS Victorious     T 2 HMS Cossack     T 2 H.M.S Shannon I had one or more of this small scale historical ships. I do not remember which type. This Shannon serves as an example   Plasty T 1 ? Favorites besides the airliners and bombers above.         Auster Antarctic         Avro Anson         De Havilland Comet Racer         Douglas Boston          Gloster Gladiator MK 1         Grumman Gosling         Lokheed Hudson         Messerschmitt Bf 110 D         Percival Jet Provost         Roland C II    1965     Supermarine Walrus MK II         The Last Kits (unbuilt)         Boeing 314 Clipper Bought at the end of the 1960's but not built anymore. Went into the 1980's collection. I did not find my T3 issue, so I picture a T4 issue I bought seconhand. Boxart is the same. 1967 T 4 Ford Trimotor Bought at the end of the 1960's. Not built. Parts  in scrap-box, which survived. 1968     The rest. Not just favorites in the recollection of my memories.         Achi D3 A1 "Val"         Boulton-Paul Defiant         BAC 111         Boeing 707         Boeing B-29 Superfortress Converted to weather reconnaissance version. Turrets removed. Painting in overall silver yielded bad results. Stopped finishing this kit. 1966     Bristol Fighter         Bristol Beaufighter         Dassault Mirage III C         De Havilland Mosquito FB VI         Grumman TBM3 Avenger         English Elecric Lightning         Iliushin Stormovik         Junkers Ju-52 /3m          Lockheed F104 Starfighter         Lockheed P-38J Lighning         Messerschmitt Bf-109 G  Repacked by Plasty. Bag with German instructio in blue schrinkwrapped plastic tray.    T 3 Plasty Mikoyan Mig-15         Mitsubishi "Dinah"         North American Harvard II         N. A.. P-51 D Mustang I' not quite shure if I had the Airfix Mustang. I definitely had the Revell 1:72 Mustang.       Vertol 107   1965     Yakovlev Yak-9D               Airfix Kits 1970 up Other Airfix Kits from the 50's and 60's  back to Airfix Home How it All Began 50´s & 60´s 1970 up Various Topics Books Contact Started: 2003 Revised : Jan 2008 / March 2015 Author: cjk  © cjk