Tin Toy Plane Production List Project

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K in diamond trademark, see KOYO KINZOKU.
The letter "K" in a diamond with intersecting ends is Koyo Kinzoku. This firm produced numerous small tin toy airplanes.

K in three concentric circles broken into four arcs, see SANKEI OKUMA.

K trademark, stylized(Possibly KEIICHI KOGYOSHO - per Kevin Dockerill's web site)
Two solid triangles form the letter “K.” The mostly plastic 727s come in two sizes. The smaller ones were sold in window boxes and were marked with the name “Cragstan,” a US toy importer. These are scale models. The larger toys, with their folding wings and flat underbellies, are poor models. They could either be “gyro powered” (friction) or battery. Sometimes these, too, were sold under the “Cragstan” name. The "Flying Colors" Braniff International color scheme is notable.

Airliners, Jet:

Boeing 727, 7” WS, 9” L, friction, scale model, marked Cragstan, mostly plastic, tin upper fuselage, in the following color schemes:
American Airlines, silver/grey with red stripe.
Braniff International “Flying Colors,” orange.
TWA, grey plastic, white/red upper fuselage.
United, grey plastic, white/blue upper fuselage.

Boeing 727, 12" WS, battery, lighted plastic jet pods, grey plastic folding wings, grey plastic lower fuselage, white plastic tail, lithographed tin upper fuselage, “Cragstan.”
American Airlines with red lightning bolt, “AA” label in red circle on tail, blue “AA” label on each wing.
United, blue cheat line, red/white broken stripe up tail fin, black titles.
Gyro Powered Boeing 727, 12" WS, friction, grey plastic folding wings, grey plastic lower fuselage, blue plastic tail, American/Pan Am/TWA/United.
All-Nippon Airways, blue/white lithographed upper fuselage with red pinstripes, red DaVinci helicopter in circle labels on wings and tail fin.
Braniff International, orange lithographed upper fuselage with stylized black titles, N1544.
Boeing 747, 10" WS, 11” L, friction, plastic folding wings, lower fuselage and tail.
Pan American, blue plastic, blue stripe atop lithographed tin upper fuselage (like All-Nippon), blue cheat line, black and red titles.

KA TOY
This Japanese toymaker, with concentric circles trademark, issued a US Air Fighter in several different color schemes. Ono also issued this plane in the 1970s with distinctive livery. Some of the KA Toy airliners feature a chrome finish that did not hold up well.

Airliners, Jet:

Boeing 727, 14 1/2” WS, friction, nose wheel, unstepped rounded nose, slender fuselage, two (not three) jet engines near tail, chrome silver overall, blue and red United markings, “Boeing 727” titles on fuselage and on tail fin between two parts of “spear” marking, N7003U, “T-BHED” on wing in red, modified from Caravelle.
Boeing 727, 14 1/2" WS, friction, nose wheel, unstepped rounded nose, slender fuselage, correct 727 tail fin with central engine intake, silver/white, orange tail with white/blue > symbol, dark blue cheat line, winged springbok logo and South African flag, South African Airways ZS-UYM “Limpopo,” modified from Caravelle (Suspected).
-As above, silver/white with red TWA markings (twin yellow globes symbol) (Suspected)
DeHavilland 121 Trident / 727, 8” WS, friction, nose wheel, in the following color schemes:
Pale blue wings, red cheat line, black DeHavilland 121 titles.
"Boeing 727," "United," chrome silver overall, dark blue and yellow cheat lines, red/medium blue markings, N7003U, "T-BHED" in red on wing, clearly marked "Alps, Tokyo Japan"
Red wings, blue lower fuselage, white upper fuselage, red tail fin trailing edge and thin cheat line above windows, Boeing 727 titles.
United, silver/white with red Boeing 727 prototype house colors, blue lower fuselage, red/blue/white wing “BO” “U727.”
United, silver/white with red Boeing 727 prototype house colors, blue lower fuselage, "United" on wing.
United, Chrome silver overall, dark blue and yellow cheat lines, red/medium blue United markings, N7003U, "T-BHED" in red on wing.

Fighter and Light Aircraft:

US Air Fighter, 8" WS, friction, plastic 3-bladed prop, in the following color schemes:
Army N903, dark brown.
Beechcraft, white with gold cowling and passengers lithographed in windows, "Beechcraft" "N8808B" on wings in black, blue and red markings.
Navy N905, blue.
USAF, silver, red cowlings and markings, yellow fuselage band, yellow lightning bolt on tail fin.

K K K Trademark, inside diamond, see NIHON BOEKI

KO (See YŌSHI-YA)

KY, See YAGIKEI

KANTO

Fighter, Jet:

Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, 7 1/2" L, friction, plastic canopy, stubby fuselage with rectangular red plastic windows near tail, red/yellow metal wingtip fuel tanks, off-white, navy blue upper fuselage stripe, US Air Force insignia, "Lockheed F-104" on tail fin and "Star Fighter" on fuselage in red script.

Light Aircraft:

Single engine, friction, light blue with red markings and yellow forward fuselage, red underside, tin pilot figure, "Pony Tail" in script on fuselage and in capitals on wing.

KASHIWAI
The logo is a K inside a diamond within a circle. Small friction toy airplanes and helicopters were made in the 1970s out of molded plastic with colorful lithographed tinplate inlays. A 1976 Asahi catalogue shows a box of single and twin-propeller Light Plane 5" Cessna Plane aircraft matching the description of Kashiwai toy planes. See Jimmy Toys.

Airliners:

Twin-engine Small Airliner (Beech 99?), 5 1/4" WS, friction, in the following color schemes:
Red two-bladed props, off-white plastic, green tail fin, lithographed tin upper body and wing inserts, rectangular cabin windows, red/green #SA-712.
Red two-bladed props, off-white plastic, red tail fin, lithographed tin upper body and wing inserts, round cabin windows, bright blue/yellow, N-514A.
White two-bladed props, blue plastic, yellow tail fin, lithographed tin upper body and wing inserts, rectangular cabin windows, red/green #SA-712.
White two-bladed props, red plastic, yellow tail fin, lithographed tin upper body and wing inserts, round cabin windows, white/blue with yellow markings, N-514A.

Airliners, Jet:

Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde, 7” L, friction with spinning pinwheels inside each wing, red plastic tail fin, tinplate inlay with blue/yellow/red upper wings, red cheat line, white crown, blue “World Jet Lines” titles, red “SST 300” on wings:
-Bright green plastic fuselage and wings underparts.
-Yellow plastic fuselage and wings underparts.
Boeing 747, small, friction, plastic (blue, pale green, or pinkish red), tin upper fuselage and wings, N-1975 on starboard wing
-American Airlines
-Pan American
-TWA-Trans World

Helicopters:

Flying Star, white plastic underparts, otherwise see under Jimmy Toys.
Sikorsky S-55, 9” L, friction, 3-bladed metal main rotor, dark green/white, yellow rear fuselage, Polizei.
Sikorsky S-72, 7” L, friction, 4-bladed red plastic main rotor inside plastic circle, red/white/blue/yellow tinplate inlay:
-Red plastic body, jet pods, tail, and stub wings.
-Yellow plastic body, jet pods, tail, and stub wings.

Light Aircraft:

Cessna Skymaster, red, red/black/blue lithographed tin inlay with pilots, orca graphic above fuselage, "SKYMASTER" across top of wing.
Single-engine Low-wing Monoplane, 5 1/4" WS, friction, in the following color schemes:
Off-white two-bladed prop, off-white plastic lower fuselage and tail fin, white plastic wings, red/white tin upper fuselage with lithographed pilots and passengers in cabin, yellow tin wing inserts with red markings, "SE-V" "N-171."
Off-white two-bladed prop and tail fin, bright lime green plastic lower fuselage and wings, red/white tin upper fuselage with lithographed pilots and passengers in cabin, yellow tin wing inserts with red markings, "SE-V" "N-171."
Red two-bladed prop and tail fin, white plastic lower fuselage and wings, dark green tin upper fuselage has white markings with lithographed pilots and passengers in cabin, dark green/yellow tin wing inserts, "N-415-S."
Single-engine Low-wing Monoplane, 8" WS, friction, white plastic underparts and tail surfaces, white plastic three-blade propeller, blue tin upper fuselage and wings, lithographed passengers, "Cessna N.453.C"
Twin-engine Cessna, friction, red plastic propellers and tail fin, white plastic, red/white/medium blue lithographed tin upper body and wing inserts, pilots and passengers in windows, "Cessna S553" on wings in yellow, "S553" on body in red.
Twin-engine Cessna, 7” WS, 6” L, friction, 3-bladed white plastic propellers and tail fin, orange-red plastic body and wings, yellow lithographed tin upper body and wing inserts with white crown, red anti-glare and narrow fuselage stripe, pilots and passengers in windows, "Cessna Y339" on wings in red, "Y339" on body in black.

KAWAHACHI SHOTEN
KHT trademark in diamond, Japan, circa 1970. This toy is the same as Saito-S2 brand, see.

Airliner, Jet:

Supersonic Airliner, 6 1/4" L, friction, delta wings, silver with yellow/red markings, pinwheels and USAF insignia on wings, HB-2 on body in black, 705 on tail.

KELLERMANN, CKO
Made in Germany, 1950s. The Komet appears to be a modification of 1930s tooling, minus the propeller.

Airliner, Jet:

Komet, 8 1/2" WS, wind-up, straight wings, tin fairing attached above wings with red arrow, yellow with red nose, „Komet" on body in red, "366" on wings in red, stylized "CKO" on tail.

KŌKYU SHŌKAI
Trademark was a K inside a stylized 5-pointed star or cherry blossom with rounded petals. The Corsair has a generic shape that lacks the inverted gull wings of the real Chance-Vought F4U. Kitahara (1988) and Marchand (2004) both identify the “Circling Plane” DC-3 as a Kokyu Shokai toy; however, the Nikko Gangu trademark appears on the box for this toy.

Airliner:

Douglas DC-3, 10 1/2" WS, wind-up key under forward fuselage, hangs from ceiling with large plastic 3-bladed rear prop, landing gear with struts, green body, yellow belly, red wings, "Circling Plane" "New York Line" titles, N753, USAF insignia, early model. Also with Nikko Gangu trade mark (see).

Fighter:

Vought F4U Corsair, 7” WS, friction, white 3-bladed plastic prop, conspicuous ridge joins fuselage halves:
-Orange-red, blue anti-glare and upper fin, white ailerons, shark mouth and eyes on forward fuselage, USAF.
-Royal blue with red tips and anti-glare, yellow “47” on fuselage and “NA” on tail fin, “F4U-5N” with post-WWII US insignia.

Fighter, Jet:

Vought F7U-3 Cutlass, 4"L, 4" WS, friction, pale green wings, dark blue fuselage with white "CUTLASS" titles, diver lithographed on red tail fins, blue underparts.

KOYO KINZOKU
Koyo Kinzoku was a Japanese firm that specialized in small friction toy airplanes in the 1960s and 70s. The trademark was a K inside a diamond with intersecting ends. Like several other simple small tin airplanes, the Boeing 707 / Douglas DC-8 jet liners have flat jet engines lithographed on the wings! The toys' small size and great variety makes them fun to collect today. Marchesini of Bologna, Italy used similar tooling. US-based toy distributors sometimes packed Koyo Kinzoku toys in plastic header bags with cardboard stapled shut over them so they could hang on racks. They sold for about a quarter. One unusual designation is that of XF8B-1, a real-life 1940s Boeing design with twin three-blade props on a single shaft; the toy, of course, has no props at all. Koyo Kinzoku should not be confused with Ohta, whose trademark was K inside a circle, a different company to which these airplanes are often attributed.

Airliners, Jet:

Boeing 707 / Douglas DC-8, 6 1/2" WS, friction, in the following color schemes:

Alitalia, silver wings with blue engines, white/blue fuselage, green/white/red tail fin, Alitalia titles, "Alitalia N 715" on wings.
Batman, red/white/silver with bat insignia, Japanese characters on wings
Batman, green, yellow/red markings, bat insignia, Batman lithographed atop fuselage
BOAC-British Overseas Airways Corporation, white speed bird insignia on dark blue tail fin, dark blue markings with red trim, gold titles on cheat line and tail fin,  BOAC DC-8 in blue on wings (BOAC flew the 707 but not the DC-8).
Japan Defense Forces, chrome silver, hinomaru (Japanese red sun insignia), yellow wing leading edges, red tail leading edges, red nose and upper fuselage stripe, triangular design on tail fin.
Lufthansa, silver wings with yellow engines, 1970s dark blue Lufthansa markings, D-ABDR.
Pan American, silver/white, 1960s medium blue Pan American scheme, N715AP in black or N-710 in blue.
Swissair, silver/white, red Swissair colors, "HC-EZ H 715" on wings.
TWA, silver/white, navy blue cheat line with two red cheat lines below it, Trans World Airlines titles, red TWA on tail fin, "TWA 707" on wings.
Yellow body and tail, blue cheat line, silver wings, red and blue details, "DC-8" titles, N3000.
Military version with lithographed "glazed nose" and blue/silver camouflage finish, red engines, US on tail fin, Navy on wing.
Military version with lithographed "glazed nose" and green/tan/pale blue camouflage finish, red engines, US flag on tail fin, Army titles.
Perman comic version, bright green overall, yellow and red markings, Japanese insignia on fuselage, 008 near nose, red  PMJ on wing, yellow "M" on tail fin, helmeted winking super hero character raising fist atop fuselage.

Boeing 747, 4 1/2" WS, similar to smaller DC-8, silver with blue and red 1970s Northwest Orient livery, yellow windows, N7477.
Boeing 747, 6 1/2" WS, blue plastic tail fin, silver with red lightning bolt cheat line, American Airlines 60s colors, yellow windows.
Boeing 747, 7" WS, bare metal underparts, bulbous nose, nose wheel:
-Lufthansa,silver/grey wings with "Lufthansa Jumbo Jet" in blue, dark blue and yellow markings.
-Pan American, medium blue markings with blue globe on tail fin.
-TWA, red markings with golden globes symbols.
DeHavilland Comet, 6 1/4" WS, leading edge wing tanks, silver/white, dark blue cheat line and tail fin, light blue markings on wing and stabilizers, BOAC titles, red leading edges, "BOAC OAPOA" on wings, G-APDA on tail fin same fuselage and tail surfaces as 707 / DC-8.
Douglas DC-8, 4 1/2" WS, friction, in the following color schemes:
-American, silver, red lightning stripe and leading edges, AA and eagle inside red circle on tail fin, blue markings,  747.
-BOAC, silver/white with dark blue cheat line and red BOAC titles.
-DC-8, yellow body and tail, dark blue cheat line, silver wings, red and blue details, "DC-8" titles.
-Northwest, silver with white upper fuselage, red engines and wingtips, blue cheat line with white Northwest titles,  DC-8 in white on red tail fin.
-PAA, silver/white with medium blue Pan American markings.
-TWA, silver/white with red TWA markings #N-205.
Swept-wing Airplane, 4 1/8" WS, friction, silver underside, white upper fuselage, red wings and fuselage, jet motors lithographed under wings, Douglas  Seven Seas" the real "Seven Seas" had four propellers.
Swept-wing Airplane, 4 1/8" WS, friction, silver/white, red cheat line and wing leading edges, "United Air Lines" titles, "United N70700" on wings.

Fighters, Jet:

Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, 3 3/4" WS, friction, silver, lithographed above and below, yellow/red/blue highlights, 'FG-786,' wing tip tanks, sold in header bag marked "Big Deal" (see) or "Toy Distributors, 4686 W Imperial Highway, Inglewood CA 1968."
Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, 3 3/4" WS, friction, red wings, black body, Navy VF-127, 209 on nose in white.
Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, 6" L, friction, in the following liveries:
Silver plastic tail, silver with blue and red USAF markings.
White plastic tail, white with red markings, dark blue nose, yellow wing leading and trailing edges, Navy.
Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, 10" L, friction with lever on starboard wing, nose wheel, in the following colors:
Silver plastic tail, silver with blue and red USAF markings.
Red plastic tail, dark green with red and yellow markings, USAF.
White plastic tail, white with red Navy markings.
Straight-wing Fighter, wing tanks, silver, blue markings, red anti-glare, Navy N-731.
Straight-wing Fighter, USAF XF8B-1, 4 3/4" WS, friction, bright green, lithographed pilot, red/yellow details, unusual exposed fly wheel.
Straight-wing Fighter, RAF Fighter, 4 3/4 WS, friction, silver, yellow trim, red/white chequer pattern, engine detail lithographed on nose.
Straight-wing Fighter, Luftwaffe, 4 3/4 WS, friction, brown, cross insignia.

Light Aircraft:

Cessna low-wing, 7" WS, friction, 3-bladed plastic prop:
-Pale blue upper fuselage, white/black, red/black "Cessna Patrol" titles on wings.
-Yellow/white, red/black "Cessna N435C" titles on wings and tail fin.
-Later: Blue plastic, blue tin inlay upper wings with  cessna in dark blue script, N.453.C, blue/white tin upper fuselage.

Single-engine Airplane, 5 1/2" WS, friction, 2-bladed plastic prop, blue plastic with yellow/red/white tinplate upper fuselage and wing inlays, red plastic tail fin, lithographed pilot and passengers, "SE-V N-171."

KYOWA TOY CO
This Japanese company from Tokyo had a globe trademark. The 727s are simple in construction. The VC-10s look similar to the 727s but they have four jet engines. The 727s with the plastic tail fins are very common.

Airliners, Jet:

Boeing 727/DeHavilland Trident, 8 1/2" WS, 10 ½”L, friction, in the following color schemes:
Jet Bombing Plane, green with red wingtips, US Air Force markings, globe mfr’s trademark.
Lufthansa, silver/white with medium blue 1960s markings.
PSA (Pacific Southwest Airlines), silver/white with red 1960s markings.
TWA, silver/white with red 1960s markings.
Four engines at tail like VC-10 (Reported).
Plastic tail fin and center engine, either red TWA or red/blue United 1960s markings, packaged in header bag with Japanese characters, possibly 1990s manufacture or repackaging of earlier toys.
Boeing 727, 15" WS, 15" L, friction, lacks supercritical wing shape, silver/white, in the following airline colors:
SAS, blue/red SAS Scandinavian Airlines System 1960s markings, red SAS titles on wings, see also Takatoku.
TAA-Trans-Australia Airlines, blue cheat line, large blue "T" "727 Jet" on tail fin, blue "THE NATION'S JETLINE" titles on fuselage, red "TAA" on fuselage, wings and tail engine, red kangaroo on forward fuselage.
TWA, red markings, red TWA titles on wings, golden globes symbol on tail fin, globe mfr’s trademark.
Vickers VC-10 (Suspected), 12” WS, 14” L, friction, lacks supercritical wing shape,1970s, in the following liveries:
Alitalia, silver/white with green and red markings, DC-9 I-DIKA.
Lufthansa, silver/white with blue markings, D-ABIB

LARAMI CORP
Ed “Ice” Berg notes this American toy distributor sold an “A-11 Supersonic Mystery Jet,” packed on a card, under its own brand name. The toy is the silver-blue variant Cessna A-37. See Nakayama.

LEADWORKS
Leadworks issued a friction Mitsubishi Zero in the late 1980s that used tooling from the 1960s. It is lithographed in an intricate green camouflage finish. Perhaps because it was marketed as an "adult collectible," and because it is more recent than the true toys, this item is common today.

LEMEZÁRUGYÁR BUDAPEST
Made in Hungary, 1950s. The factory, best known for its export Holdraketa moon rocket copied from a Japanese toy design, was still making toys in the 1990s. The web site states that the fine scale model Il-14 was made in 1957. There is another Ilyushin 14 Crate made in East Germany, see MSB.
Web site: http://lemezarugyarasjatek.mlap.hu/#/ht ... sh-deutsch

Airliners:

Ilyushin Il-14 Crate (Repulo Lendulet), 13 1/2" WS, friction, scale model, light grey/white, translucent plastic 4-bladed props, highly detailed medium blue MALEV Hungarian Airlines markings with "Magyar Legikozlekedesi Vallalat" titles in script, red/green Hungarian flag on tail fin, HA-MAB.
Ilyushin Il-14 Crate, as above, no airline titles or Hungarian flag, marked "Foreign."

Airliner, Jet:

Tupolev Tu-104 (Lendkerekes Repulo), clear plastic canopy, light grey with white upper fuselage, pale blue MALEV Hungarian Airlines markings, red/green bands on tail fin with “M” in stylized blue script, HA-MOD.

Helicopter:

Helikopter, tadpole-shaped, friction, three-bladed main rotor, lithographed pilots, no tail rotor:
White with yellow, orange, red, light and dark blue markings, RXL 128.
Yellow with light blue/green/red markings.

LEMY - POLIUMEX S.A.
Mexico's Lemy-Poliumex S.A., whose trademark was a wheeled “L” inside a gear, issued several different toy airplanes. All of these use tooling that other toy makers also used. The large Aéromexico DC-8 is particularly attractive and dates from around 1980. The small airplanes were sold in blister cards that identify two addresses, one in Mexico City for sales and another in Cuernavaca for the factory.

Airliners:

Convair 340, 12 1/2" WS, friction, 3-bladed plastic props, same tooling as Tipp Co. #58F. Box lid identifies toy as “DC-3” “Convair.” Metalico, resistente, con mecanismo de friccion y movimiento de helices.
-Air West, silver/white, red cheat line ala Lufthansa, German flag on tail fin with registration D-ACOH, stylized lower case titles.
-KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, silver/off white, blue KLM markings with "The Flying Dutchman" on one side and "De Vliegende Hollander" on the other side of the fuselage, PH-TGJ.
-Lufthansa, silver/off-white, blue markings, D-ACOH.

Airliners, Jet:

Boeing 727 (Suspected), 14" WS, friction, Tipp Co tooling, elongated, red plastic jet pods, tail engine not smoothly faired into tail fin, silver/white, gold cheat line with 1980s stylized lower case "mexicana" titles in black, Mexican flag on fuselage, XA-CMA.
-Three white plastic jet pods.
Douglas DC-8, 14" WS, friction, Tipp Co 707 tooling, silver/white with orange/black Aéromexico markings and Aztec eagle warrior head on orange tail fin.
Douglas DC-8, 14" WS, friction, Tipp Co 707 tooling, silver overall with orange/black Aéromexico markings and Aztec eagle warrior head on orange tail fin.
Douglas DC-8 #910, 5" WS, friction, silver with orange/black Aéromexico markings, Aztec eagle warrior head on orange tail fin, XA-SIB, packed on blister card, same tooling as Koyo Kinzoku "Diamond K" brand.

Light Aircraft:

Cessna Mini #940, 3" WS, friction, metal 3-bladed prop inside a circle, red tail fin, white with red markings including sunburst on wings, lithographed crew and passengers, NJ5 167 in blue on wings, packed on blister card, see also ND Toy.

LILI-LEDY SA

Lili-Ledy was a Mexican company founded in the 1950s. By the late 70s it was a member of General Mills Fun Group and produced a famous line of Star Wars toys. During this time era a Concorde jetliner was produced. The firm still existed in the 1980s.

Airliner, Jet:

Aerospatiale-BAC Concorde, friction, tin fuselage, the rest is molded of white plastic. Blue label with "Concorde' in white on the tail fin. It is very similar to the French-made Mont Blanc brand Concorde.
-Red cheat line
-Blue cheat line

LIMA
An Italian company that specialized in HO gauge railways, Lima produced some tin toy aircraft as well.

Airliner:

Lima #302, wind-up, 2 metal 2-blade props, large metal wheels with tires marked "Super Cord," US insignia on wings, "Transworld Airline" "HX6-2141"

Helicopter:

#2242, wind-up, similar to GAMA # 55 (see Mangold), metal four-blade rotor, metal wheels, blue with red tail fin.

LINCOLN
This company manufactured an extensive line of plastic model kits. It also made at least one tin toy, a Supermarine Spitfire. It has no maker's mark, only "Empire Made." Otherwise, the toy is identical to the Japanese-made Hishimo HTC brand Spitfire.

Fighter:

Supermarine Spitfire, 10" WS, friction, white three-bladed plastic prop, square wingtips, plastic canopy, green/yellow camouflage markings, pale blue underside, "SN M".

LUCKY TOY
An American distributor used the brand name Lucky Toy for small, inexpensive Japanese-made toys sold in "header bags," i.e. a plastic bag with a punched cardboard rectangle, folded over and stapled so it could hang on a rack. Though some Ichimura and S2 brand toy planes were packaged as such, other Lucky Toy planes have no manufacturer's mark and cannot be identified further. Furthermore, Kevin Dockerill states that Kashiwai (see) traded as Lucky Toy. The 707 is flat-looking, and surviving examples often lack the tail fin.

Airliner, Jet:

Boeing 707 #32, 5 5/8” WS, friction, flat engines on wing leading edges, in the following color schemes:
American Airlines N7501A
-Without lithographed seam and rivet detail, dark blue and red markings.
-With lithographed seam and rivet detail, red engines, silver with red/black markings.
Army, dark green overall with round cabin windows.
Pan American, silver/white, red engines, silver or gold lower parts, blue stripe, N-801PA.
TWA, red engines:
-Pale blue wings with "TWA N501AC" in red, white fuselage, double red stripes on body and tail fin, red Trans World Airlines titles, or
-White, silver wings, red cheat line, red/yellow "TWA" golden globes logo.

Fighter, Jet:

Convair F-106 #33, 7 1/4” L, friction, in the following color schemes:
-RAF, light and medium blue camouflage.
-Army, olive green with red nose.
-US Air Force, red/white, FC-453, 11-1000 on tail fin.
-US Air Force, red/white chequer pattern.
-US Navy, dark blue, red trim, yellow lettering, gold underneath.
-US Navy, medium blue and yellow, red/white chequered tail fin
-White with yellow stripes and red chequer markings, "N6 221" on wings in blue and on body in red, red plastic tail fin.
-Chrome silver with yellow sunburst markings, 2F-397, blue plastic tail fin.
-Chrome silver, red arrow on upper fuselage, red/yellow chequer markings aft fuselage, blue stripes on wings, NF-195, blue or red plastic tail fin.
-Pink/red "camouflage" with red stripes on wings.
McDonnell F4 Phantom, friction, small, blue plastic with tin plastic upper inlays, black with red/white/yellow markings, Navy NJ 24-144, sold in "LUCKY TOY" header bag, might be Kashiwai.

LUNOCHOD(?)
Made in Hungary or Soviet Union
Single-engine Monoplane, 10” WS, friction, 2-bladed plastic propeller, small plastic pilot head in open cockpit, yellow or cream-colored plastic body and wings, red tin upper fuselage, “Crop M” #H-712.

LYRA
This brand is named after a Greek violin that is held and played in an upright position. The firm issued an Air France Concorde, very similar to the Daiya Japanese toy, but made in Greece.

Airliners, Jet:

Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde, 14" L, battery, silver/white:
Air France, white with blue and red markings.
Alitalia, off-white with green and red markings, "Italy s World Airline" on each wing.
Pan American, silver/white, medium blue cheat line with blue globe symbol on tail fin.

Fighter, Jet:

General Dynamics F-111A, # 39768, battery, plastic canopy with pilot, working plastic swing wings, two lighted red transparent plastic engine exhausts, grey with red markings, US Air Force insignia, LYRA symbol on white plastic tail, see Nikko Gangu Kogyo.

[Tone]

M TRADEMARK, inside diamond, within a circle

Fighters, Jet:

Grumman F9F Panther, 6 1/4" WS, friction motor at aft fuselage, sparks, pink plastic "windows," medium blue with yellow diagonal stripes on tail surfaces, "Flying Jet" on body in white, wing tip tanks:
-Red lengthwise wing strips, USAF in yellow, or
-Yellow lengthwise wing strips, USAF in red.

P-88 Delta Wing, 4 1/4" WS, friction, sparks, thin wheels, green camouflage, red markings, plastic insert atop fuselage, appears to be same tooling as Marchesini #710, see.
-As above, RCAF (Royal Canadian Air Force)

ME-, MF-, MS- series made in China (See SFTF)
ME stands for "Mechanical Electric" (i.e. battery), MF stands for "Mechanical Friction" and MS for "Mechanical Spring" (wind-up). Undoubtedly, the Chinese SFTF factory produced these toys for children to play with, but by the time they reached US stores, they were often marketed as "nostalgic adult collectibles." Information source: Alphaville Robots and Space Toys web site.

MSB
According to fliegerii, MSB was an East German toy manufacturer that succeeded the famous EPL, Ernst Paul Lehmann firm. MSB manufactured a tin toy of the Ilyushin Il-14 Crate, a twin-propeller airliner manufactured in the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia and in widespread use beginning in the 1950s. The Il-14 had a body and tail shaped like those of a DC-3 combined with very long wings with square wingtips. The type was still common in China in the late 1980s.

Airliner:

Ilyushin Il-14 Crate, #621, friction, black plastic 4-bladed props, light grey/off-white, in the following color schemes:
Blue-green cheat line and fin flash with black/red/gold German flag, blue-green engine nacelles, East German "Deutsche Lufthansa" titles with crane logo.
Pale blue cheat line and engine nacelles, pale blue fin flash with East German flag, DM-SAF.
Red cheat line, dark blue engine nacelles.

MTU in diamond trademark
Made in the Republic of Korea (south), late 1970s or 80s.

Helicopters:

8 1/4" L, wind-up, plastic 2-bladed main rotor, 2 blue plastic jet pods, red/white/pink, Fire Chief.
8 1/4" L, wind-up, plastic 2-bladed main rotor, white/black, yellow rear fuselage band, red tail, Police.

Twin-rotor (VT-107), wind-up, plastic 3-bladed rotors and lower fuselage:
Emergency, white/black/red.
Police Sky Patrol, red/white/blue.

Light Aircraft:

Cessna HR-453 high wing, 7 ¾” WS, wind-up, plastic with tinplate inlays, 3-bladed plastic prop, red tin wing inlays with yellow markings have “Cessna” in black script and “HR-453,” red/white/light blue tin upper fuselage; yellow/black chequerboard pattern stabilizers.
-Blue plastic body, wings, tail fin.
-Red plastic body, wings, tail fin.

Military Transport Aircraft:

Fairchild C-119, wind-up, caricature with stubby wings, silver with blue plastic underparts, three-blade yellow plastic propellers, lithographed passengers in cabin windows, "US Navy C-119 R4Q" titles. See also Shin Houng.

MANGOLD, Georg Adam (GAMA trademark)
GAMA's German-made Boeing Stratocruisers were made of heavy tin plate and generally fitted with twin strong friction motors. A single battery inside the body, situated atop the wings, lighted the wing lights on most examples of the toys, though some were fitted with hand-held remote control mechanisms. They came in the typical Pan American World Airways 50s colors or the revised "jet age" livery, with medium blue globe on the tail fin. White paint seen applied to the upper fuselages might be "factory original." Tin, wheeled stairways, also bearing Pan American titles, were nice accessories. GAMA continued its line of airliners into the 60s, making contemporary jets, and the firm also made die cast toy vehicles. According to Mark Driver, Gama's H-15 Helicopter is similar to a toy made by the Italian toy train manufacturer LIMA, as well as a Japanese tin toy from "Empress Playtime" in the 60s.

Airliners:

Boeing 377 Stratocruiser #1000, 19 1/2" WS, friction, punched out windows:
Battery wing lights, metal 4-bladed props, silver/white, dark blue Pan American World Airways markings, N1023V "Strato" Clipper, with air stairs.
Battery remote control with wing lights, plastic 4-bladed props, silver/white, dark blue Pan American World Airways markings, N1023V "Strato" Clipper, with air stairs.
Friction, battery wing lights, plastic 4-bladed props, silver/off-white, blue Pan American "jet age" livery N1023V "Clipper New York" with globe symbol on tail.

Airliners, Jet:

Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde #1107, 12" L, friction, plastic lower parts, Lufthansa, identical to Daiya toy.
Boeing 707 #1100, 18" WS, in the following color schemes:
Lufthansa, silver/white with medium blue 1960s livery.
Lufthansa, silver/white with dark blue 1970s livery, lower-case titles, dark blue tail fin with crane symbol inside yellow circle.
Pan American, battery remote control, lighted red plastic jet pods, silver/white with medium blue 1960s livery, "Boeing," "Jet Clipper Flying Cloud."
SE-210 Caravelle #1006, friction, red intakes, silver/white, dark blue cheat line, blue band on tail fin with Crevette symbol, Air France F-BHRA.

Helicopters:

H-15, 5" L, friction, 2-bladed main rotor.
S-55, 8 1/4" L, 3-bladed plastic main rotor; blue, red, or red/blue.

MARCHESINI (Agostino Marchesini Bologna, AMB)
Firm founded in Bologna, Italy in the 1900s; the penny toy monoplanes were probably available in the 1950s. A series of small toy airplanes made in the 1960s or 70s used tooling in common with the Japanese manufacturer Koyo Kinzoku whose trademark was the letter “K” inside a diamond with intersecting ends (see); for instance, there is a DC-8 identical to one made in Japan except with a plastic tail fin embossed with the letters “AMB.” The 747 dates from the 1970s.

Airliners, Jet:

#902 Boeing 747, #A.M.B. N.902, 13" WS, battery, grey or white plastic lower fuselage and tail surfaces, silver plastic jet pods, silver/white, bright green and red 1970s Alitalia livery, "Alitalia Boeing 747" on wings.
#715 Douglas DC-8, 6 1/2" WS, friction, silver wings with blue engines, white/blue fuselage, blue (or grey) plastic tail fin and tail wheel, “AMB” embossed on tail, Alitalia titles, "Alitalia N 715" on wings (Koyo Kinzoku-Japan tooling).
-Red/white, Swissair.

Fighters:
#700 Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, bright green with red fuel tanks, white plastic tail, USAF, (Koyo Kinzoku-Japan tooling).
#710 Delta-wing Fighter, friction, red, black anti-glare, USAF markings, “AMB 700.”
#716 Straight-wing Fighter, 4 3/4” WS, friction, Luftwaffe, ocher, cross insignia, FW-716, (Koyo Kinzoku-Japan tooling).

Helicopters:

#714 Sikorsky S-55, three-bladed main rotor:
“AM,” dark blue, metal main rotor, small tail rotor.
Polizia, dark green, plastic main rotor, no tail rotor.

Light Aircraft:

Single-Engine Airplane #37, 4 1/8” WS, penny toy, freely spinning metal wheels and 2-bladed prop:
Off-white, red crosses in circles markings.
Pale yellow, "AG 2" on wings, blue/white/red tricolor tail fin.
Silver, red and blue markings, stars on wings, mouse on body, orange tail fin.
Sunburst pattern on wings, bird on fuselage.

MÄRKLIN
Märklin, in business since the 1880s, manufactured elaborate, early toys of the Wright biplane (Drachenflieger), Clément-Bayard, and Zeppelin airships as early as 1908. In the 2000s the firm re-issued its motorized construction kit of the Junkers Ju-52/3m as a collectible.

MARKES, see DUX

MARUSAN
This Japanese company used SAN in a circle as its trademark. It did not produce many toy aircraft, but one of them arguably was the largest tin toy airplane ever made, the C-133 Cargomaster, seen in the firm's 1959 catalog.

Airliner/Transport:

Douglas C-133 Cargomaster, very large, jet pod above wings.
Lockheed "Electora" (not Electra), friction, white plastic four-blade propellers, red plastic cowlings, Britannia wings and nacelles, swept tail surfaces, red and blue American Airlines markings.

Airliners, Jet:

Boeing 707/Convair 880, 24" WS, friction, metal jet pods, silver/white with blue and red Japan Air Lines 60s colors with multiple stripes.
Boeing 707/Convair 880, 24" WS, friction, metal jet pods, silver/white with medium blue Pan American markings.
Convair 880 (Douglas DC-8), 12 3/4" WS, friction, nose and tail wheels, four tires on single axle main landing gear, metal jet pods, silvery blue, off-white upper fuselage, dark blue cheat line with red/gold trim, "Convair" "880" titles.
Douglas DC-8, 12 3/4" WS, friction, nose and tail wheels, four tires on single axle main landing gear, metal jet pods, silver overall, red Trans-Canada Air Lines markings.
Douglas DC-8, 12 3/4" WS, friction, nose and tail wheels, four tires on single axle main landing gear, metal jet pods, silver/white, blue and red United markings.

Fighters, Jet:

Douglas D-558-1, 10 1/2" WS, friction with sparks, straight wings, windows on forward fuselage, clear canopy with pilot figurines, silver, blue upper fuselage, red tail fin and control surfaces, USAF FS-735.
Grumman Panther, friction, plastic canopy, tin wingtip fuel tanks, dark blue with yellow and red stripes and markings, USAF insignia.

Helicopters:

Piasecki Helicopter, 10" L, friction, two 3-bladed metal rotors, off white dark blue and red markings, "Piasecki Helicopter Lines."
Piasecki Helicopter, 10" L, friction, two 3-bladed metal rotors, Police Traffic Control.
Sikorsky S-55/H-19, 8" L, wind-up, tin pilot, red/yellow tin 3-bladed metal main rotor, red body with light yellow top, large USAF insignia on nose, "Rescue" 95074, blue tail rotor.
Sikorsky S-55/H-19, 8" L, wind-up, tin pilot, tin 3-bladed metal main rotor, blue, red stripe, white upper fuselage.
Sikorsky S-55/H-19, 8" L, wind-up, tin pilot, tin 3-bladed metal main rotor, green, Army.
Sikorsky S-62 #336, 11" L, wind-up, tin pontoons, white 3-bladed tin main rotor, red tail rotor, dark green with red tail boom band, US Army.
Sikorsky S-62 #336, 11" L, wind-up, tin pontoons, white 3-bladed tin main rotor, red tail rotor, medium blue overall, US Air Force markings.

MARUSYŌ, see DSK-DAISHIN (MARUSYŌ)
Marusyo's trademark was the outline of a single-engine plane with propeller, seen overhead, with MARUSYO written across the wings. This trademark is sometimes seen on the Boeing 727s that are the same as those from Cragstan + Nipon Goraku Shokai (NGS).

[grwebster]

thanks for putting this together, Tone, excellent job.

[Tone]

MARX, LOUIS, CO. and LINE MAR TOYS
The Louis Marx Co began after World War I and soon specialized in tin wind-up toys. By the 1950s the firm was making miniature replicas of everything in metal and plastic, and distributing them widely. While the headquarters were located in New York City, factories were located in West Virginia and Pennsylvania.

The Line Mar tin toy brand, with its extensive line of friction and battery toys, existed from about 1956 through 1962. Marx was producing less tin toys in the United States and decided that selling a line of toys made in Japan would be a viable alternative. The brand name derives from "Mar Lines" used for train sets in the 1930s. Toy aircraft were often made from tooling used by other companies, particularly Nikko Gangu Kogyo. These include the very fine DC-7 #J-2019 Battery-Operated Airplane with Automatic Turn Over Propellers, seen in the Sears Wish Book catalog from 1958 through 1961. Line Mar liked to transform one airplane into something completely different or mix different parts. Hence, a Boeing Stratocruiser became a Capital Airlines "Viscount." A 707 jetliner body was merged with an entirely new set of Bristol Britannia wings and marked as a Northwest "DC-7!" Eddie Rickenbacker’s SPAD and Lindbergh’s Ryan Spirit of St. Louis share the same fuselage and tail surfaces. Clever slogans printed on the boxes were "Line Mar, Best by Far" and "One of the many Linemar toys. Do you have all of them?" Line Mar sold its line of die cast toys as well, made from pot metal or "antimony," named Elegant Miniatures.

From around 1963 Marx toys, particularly the airplanes, imported from Japan and Hong Kong had a trademark with the entire name "MARX" rather than the traditional "MAR" superimposed on the railroad crossing sign with the X in the background. Imported toys are clearly marked with the name of the country of origin. Though production officially ceased in 1979, some Marx toys were re-issued in the 1990s.

Airliners made in US using existing 1938-41 tooling:

Army Transport, 18" WS, friction, metal 2-bladed props, dark green overall, "6" on forward fuselage, lithographed to resemble a B-25 bomber.
Skycruiser, 18" WS, friction, two plastic 4-bladed props, blue cheat line, two metal tail fins.
Skycruiser, 18" WS, friction, two plastic 4-bladed props, blue cheat line, single plastic tail fin.
Skycruiser, 18" WS, friction, four plastic 4-bladed props, silver wings, red cheat lines, United-style logos, plastic tail/nacelles patterned after Stratocruiser, "Strato Air Lines" "5034" "NC 10."

Airliners, Line Mar:

Boeing Stratocruiser, 14 1/2" WS, battery remote control, red and green wing lights, metal props with rounded tips, pale silvery blue with off-white upper fuselage and red Capital Airlines markings, "Viscount," "N86532, same tooling used for other brand toys-Nikko Gangu/Nomura and Hadson.
Convair 240 body/B-29 wings, 19 1/2" WS, friction with battery wing and tail lights, green plastic cabin windows, see also Tomiyama-Yonezawa, in the following color schemes:
-TWA, silver or gold-tone with red markings, N34002.
-United, white/silver with dark blue and red United "DC-7 Mainliner" markings, N37210.
Convair C-131, 4" WS, red 4-bladed plastic props, light blue overall, 'TP-816.'
Douglas DC-6, 13" WS, three-bladed metal props, in the following color schemes:
-Northwest, friction, pale blue rectangles, red markings, N101735.
-Pan American, battery remote control, silver/white with blue markings (Also found with Suzuki & Edward S & E trademark).
-Trans-Canada Airlines, friction or battery remote control, silver with red markings, CF-TGM.
-United, friction or battery remote control, silver overall, blue and red markings, "Mainliner Stratocruiser" N31225.
-United, as above, three-blade red plastic props.
Douglas DC-7 #J-2019, 19 1/2" WS, battery, red and green wing lights, white plastic 4-bladed props, see also Nikko Gangu Kogyo, in the following color schemes:
-Single nose wheel, silver plastic cowlings, silver with white squares around engines, dark blue/red American Airlines markings, N305AA "Flagship Carolyn."
-Dual tin nose wheels, red plastic cowlings, silver with broad white lengthwise wing stripes, dark blue/red American Airlines markings, N305AA "Jet Powered Electra Flagship."
-Silver/white, dark blue and red SAS Scandinavian Airlines System markings.
Douglas DC-7C, 16 1/2" WS, friction, 1959, in the following color schemes:
-KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, four-bladed plastic props, off-white/silver, blue markings, "The Flying Dutchman" titles on one side and "De Vliegende Hollander" on the other side of the fuselage, PH-DSL "Baltic Sea."
-Pan American, off-white/silver, dark blue livery with light blue highlights, red cowlings, N027V.
Four-engine Airliner, 15" WS, friction, two ribs on fuselage, see also Momoya-Eastern Constellation, in the following color schemes:
-American Airlines, red plastic four-bladed props, silver overall, dark blue and red markings, "Flagship Allison" N305AA.
-Trans-Canada Airlines, white plastic four-bladed props, silver overall with silver or red nacelles, "Viscount," CF-TGI.
Four-engine Airliner, Boeing 707 body, Bristol Britannia wings, 19" WS, friction, in the following color schemes:
-American Airlines, 4-bladed plastic props, silver with red markings, with or without “Electra” titles.
-Northwest, red 4-bladed plastic props, off white/silver, red tail, red and blue Northwest color scheme, N204 on wing, "DC-7C" on tail fin.
Lockheed Constellation, 7 1/2" WS, friction, see also Miyazawa, in the following color schemes:
Disney, silver, red stripe along upper fuselage, yellow/red/blue Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Pluto.
Toy Town Airlines, silver/red.
Lockheed C-121 Super Constellation, 19 1/2" WS, friction with battery wing and tail lights, red plastic props, silver with dark blue fuselage, white Military Air Transport Service titles, similar to Arnold and Joustra toys.
Lockheed Electra, 6 1/2" WS, friction, red 4-bladed props, in the following color schemes:
-American Airlines, silver with blue and red markings, "DC-7" titles, N305A.
-Disney, silver, red stripe along upper fuselage, blue cheat line, lithographed round cabin windows, yellow/red/blue Mickey Mouse and other characters.
-Eastern, white with red/blue markings, "Fly-Eastern's Prop-Jet Electra" titles on fuselage.
-United, silver/white with red/blue markings, "DC-7" titles, N37530.
Lockheed Electra #J-4926, 14" WS, battery, accurate scale model, lighted flight deck with plastic pilots, die cast metal nose gear strut, white plastic props, plastic engine nacelles, silver with broad off-white lengthwise wing stripes, orange-red and dark blue American Airlines markings, N6100A, see also Yonezawa.
Vickers Viscount #J-1421, 11" WS, friction with lever action, similar to Biller toy, retractable undercarriage, plastic 3-bladed props, with raised flight deck insert, off-white/silver with red Capital Airlines markings, N7402.
Vickers Viscount, 11" WS, battery inside grip handle underneath, off-white/silver, blue KLM Royal Dutch Airlines markings, "The Flying Dutchman" on one side and "De Vliegende Hollander" titles on the other side of the fuselage, lacks flight deck insert-the windows are lithographed onto the fuselage.

Airliners imported from Japan and Hong Kong, Louis Marx Co.:

Canadair 44, 20" WS, battery, plastic underparts, white 4-bladed props, red and green wing lights, tail section opens with cargo, in the following color schemes:
-Flying Tiger Line, silver with red and blue markings, N447T.
-Seaboard World, white/gold/black markings.
-Slick Airways, silver with red and blue markings.
Lockheed Constellation, Four-engined Skycruiser, 7 1/2" WS, friction or battery remote control, black plastic 3-bladed props, white/silver with dark blue and red BOAC markings, see also Miyazawa.
Lockheed 188 Electra, Air Cargo Prop-Jet Airplane, 14" WS, battery, white plastic 4-bladed props, lighted flight deck with plastic pilots, die cast metal nose gear strut, Yonezawa tooling, in the following color schemes:
-Seaboard World, white/gold/black, "Canadair 44."
-Slick Airways, silver/blue/red, N602SA, "Canadair 44."
Lockheed 188 Electra, 14" WS, battery, molded grey plastic with tinplate upper fuselage only, white plastic 4-bladed props, Hong Kong, in the following color schemes:
-American Airlines, silver with orange-red/blue lithography and stickers, "Flagship California."
-Express Airlines, green and red midget lights on props, light grey upper fuselage, orange-red cheat line, dark blue and red stripes on tail fin, "EXPRESS Airlines" titles with the first word in bold red capitals and the second word in dark blue script, many small blue cabin windows, British Union flag, "EA 6226" stickers on wings.
-Northwest, green and red midget lights on props, white with dark blue and red lithography and stickers, "DC-7C."
Lockheed 188 Electra, 16" WS, battery, 707 fuselage, grey plastic underparts, white plastic 4-bladed props, see also Nikko Gangu Kogyo/Toys Nomura, in the following color schemes:
-American Airlines, silver with red/blue markings, lithographed (not clear plastic) passenger windows.
-Northwest, silver/white with dark blue and red markings, "DC-7C."
-Pan American, silver/white with medium blue markings and many small cabin windows, 1966 in Roman numerals under stabilizer.

Airliners, Jet, Line Mar:

Boeing 707, 17 3/4" WS, friction, nose & tail wheels, pointy nose, low tail fin, B-52 wings, metal engines:
-Silver with red American Airlines markings (Suspected).
-Silver/white with medium blue Pan American markings (Suspected).
-Silver/white with red TWA markings, blue wings, N731TW.
-Silver/white, red engines, medium blue cheat line, black “UNITED AIR LINES” titles, UAL on wings in blue, broken blue and red stripe up tail fin, “DC-8 Jet Mainliner” (Suspected).
Boeing 707, 18" WS, battery, silver/red jet pods, silver/white with Pan American markings, "Clipper America" titles, see also Nikko Gangu Kogyo and SFTF.
Douglas DC-8 #J-2211, 16" WS, friction with sparks, red plastic cabin windows, silver/off-white, dark blue cheat line, red/white tail, National "Airline of the Stars" 50s colors, N805, probably also in AA/Pan American/TWA colors without sparks, see also Hishimo-HTC.
Douglas DC-8, 3 7/8" WS, friction, same as Sanyo-S2 brand KC-135, cylindrical jet pods, white with dark blue/red markings, "Douglas DC-8" titles.

Airliners, Jet, Louis Marx Co.:

Boeing 707, 14 1/2" WS, battery, lighted red plastic jet pods with white details, plastic underparts, Nikko Gangu tooling, in the following color schemes:
-Lufthansa, silver/white with blue/yellow markings.
-Pan American, battery with remote control, opening cargo door on port fuselage side, silver/white with pale blue wing markings, medium blue livery with black titles, "Jet Clipper."
-TWA, silver/white, red Super Jet markings with golden globes.
Boeing 707, 14 1/2" WS, battery, lighted red plastic jet pods with white details, molded plastic with tinplate upper fuselage only, Hong Kong, in the following color schemes:
-BOAC – British Overseas Airways Corporation, grey/white with dark blue markings.
-Braniff International, light blue, black stylized fuselage titles, BI in black on white tail fin.
-Braniff International, orange, black stylized fuselage titles, BI in black on white tail fin.
-British Caledonian, grey/white with blue and yellow 70s colors.
-TWA, grey/white, red markings with two golden globes.
Boeing 707, 18" WS, battery, lighted red plastic jet pods, silver and white with red and blue TWA markings.
Boeing 727, Jet of the Soaring 60s, 13 1/2" WS, battery, red and white plastic jet engines, nose wheels pull plane along, plastic underparts, in the following color schemes:
-American Airlines, silvery-blue overall, red and dark blue markings, Astrojet.
-Eastern, silver/white with medium blue and dark blue cheat lines on fuselage and tail fin, "Whisperjet" on tail fin.
-Lufthansa, silver/white with blue/yellow markings, D-ABOL "727 Europa Jet."
Lockheed C-141A Starlifter, 14" WS, battery, lighted red and white plastic jet pods, plastic underparts, silvery-blue overall, Military Air Transport Service, see Nikko Gangu Kogyo.
Vickers VC-10, same tooling as 727, 13 1/2" WS, battery, nose wheels pull plane along, plastic underparts, silver/white with dark blue BOAC markings, trimmed in gold, G-ARTA on blue tail (prototype registration).

Bombers, Line Mar:

Boeing B-50 Superfortress, 14 1/2" WS, metallic blue with darker blue/red/black markings, American Airlines "D7C," "Flagship Pamela," see also Tomiyama.
Boeing B-50 Superfortress, 19 1/2" WS, metallic blue with darker blue/red/black markings, American Airlines "D7C," "Flagship Allison," see also Tomiyama.

Bombers, Jet, Line Mar:

Boeing YB-52 Superfortress, 15" WS, friction, raised flight deck, 1957, in the following color schemes:
-Off-white, red engines, "9231" on fin, "Flagship Nardina" on nose.
-Off-white, red upper fuselage stripe, plastic windows in forward fuselage, red engines, "9231" on fin, "YB-52" in blue and "Flagship Nardina" on nose.
-Off-white, plastic windows in forward fuselage, blue engines, dark blue upper fuselage.
-Pan American, silver/white, raised flight deck, blue markings.
Convair B-58 Hustler, 8 1/2" L, friction, silver with blue details.

Bombers, Jet, Louis Marx Co.:

Bristol 188, 15" L, battery, two large jet engines on short wings, plastic underparts, chromed finish.
Convair B-58 Hustler #J-9454, 21" L, battery, lighted red plastic jet pods, three opening canopies with orange plastic pilots, retractable white needle nose, plastic underparts, silver/grey overall:
-Red USAF markings, dark blue diagonal band on fuselage, Strategic Air Command shield on fuselage and tail fin.
-Blue flaps, red speedbird motif, US Air Force"with smaller "B-58" Hustler" titles on forward fuselage.

Fighters, Line Mar:

Biplane, 2 3/4" WS, friction, 2-bladed plastic prop, white, red/blue wings, "Army" titles.
Biplane, 7 1/2" WS, friction, red.
Biplane, Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker SPAD, 7 1/2" WS, friction, tail wheel drives plastic 2-bladed prop, two-tone green camouflage with red/blue roundel on upper wing, hat in ring on fuselage, "Hispano-Suiza" on blue/white/red tail (94th Aero insignia).
Biplane, marked as Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker SPAD but similar in shape to S & E Curtiss JN-4, friction, plastic 2-blade prop, two-tone green camouflage with red/blue roundel on upper wing, hat in ring on fuselage, (possible: "Hispano-Suiza" on blue/white/red tail-94th Aero insignia, example viewed was missing entire tail).
Single-engine Airplane, 4" WS, friction, red plastic 2-bladed prop, silver, red/blue details, NAVY on wing, '7021' on tail.
Supermarine Spitfire, 7 WS, friction, 3-bladed plastic prop, bright yellow/green, pale blue underside, white rear fuselage band, RAF insignia.

Fighters, Louis Marx Co.:

Curtiss P-40, caricature, battery remote control, orange, pre-1940s insignia (a slightly larger, camouflage P-40 made in USA was part of a pre-war Air Sea Power set with four tin warships).
North American F-86 Sabre, 7" L, friction or battery remote control, lighted rear fuselage, silver overall, red jet intake and tips, dark blue upper fuselage, US Air Force/ FC 657 on fuselage, 7452 on tail fin.
North American Sabre or Super Sabre, friction, silver, red markings, AF in yellow on wing, Air Force FW-966 on fuselage.
SV-3 Rocket Plane, 6 3/4" WS, friction, silver with red and blue markings, F6200 on fin.

Fighters, Jet, Line Mar:

Delta-wing Jet with Launching Station, 4 ¾” WS, wind-up, white with dark blue markings, Navy N250, 10” L green rectangular platform with yellow launching station and crank.
F-102 #53372, 3 3/16" WS, friction, light blue with red markings, "NK" logo on wheel assembly.
F-104, 2 7/8" WS, friction, silver, blue/red markings, "NK" logo on wheel assembly.
McDonnell F3H-2 Demon, 5 1/8" WS, friction, silver overall, red markings on nose and wingtip tanks, two diagonal red stripes on tail fin, black trim, lithographed cannon on nose, US Air Force 5701, FA-701 on fuselage, same tooling as Ichimura toy.
North American Sabre or Super Sabre, 6”L, friction, silver, red markings, AF in yellow on wing, Air Force FW-966 on fuselage, 41966 on mostly red tail fin.
Republic F-84, 13" WS, battery remote control, silver/red, with firing rockets.
X-15 experimental aircraft #66670, 6 1/2" L, friction, silver, red and bright blue markings, from 1960 American Airlines Jetport set.
X-059 experimental rocket aircraft, 6" L, friction, silver fuselage, short straight blue wings, cruciform tail, large red plastic exhaust, plastic windows at rear fuselage.

Helicopters, Line Mar:

Piasecki HUP-1, 10" L, wind-up, two 3-bladed metal rotors:
-New York Airways, white/blue, lithographed pilots at controls, large cabin windows, red fuselage titling and “NYA” in red on aft rotor housing (Suspected).
-Pioneer Airways Inc Intercity Helicopter Service, red with dark blue cheat line with thin yellow borders.
-SABENA, off-white with dark blue markings, pilots lithographed in windows, black undersides.
VT-107, 9 1/2" L, friction, two 3-bladed metal rotors, silver/white with red cheat line, "Twin Turbine" "Mercury 107" titles.
XV-3, friction, two 3-bladed metal rotors on wingtips, dark blue.
XV-3, battery remote control, two 3-bladed metal rotors on wingtips, silver.

Helicopters, Louis Marx Co.:

Piasecki HUP-1, 10" L, wind-up, Moon Scout (see also Line Mar Toys - SABENA version).
Piasecki HUP-1, 10" L, wind-up, 2 metal rotors, Air Force Rescue Battalion, lithographed doctors, nurses, and patients in large cabin windows.
Sikorsky S-55, 8" L, friction, RAF roundels.
Sikorsky S-55 #1993, 9 1/2" L, friction, dark green with RAF roundels.
Vertol VT-107, 10" L, friction, Mercury 107 (see Line Mar Toys).
Vertol VT-107 / CH-47, 16" L, battery, olive green, opening starboard door, lighted engine, lithographed personnel in windows, "107th Marine Parachute Battalion."

Light Aircraft, Line Mar:

P-47 tooling, 10” WS, friction, radial engine see also Daiya, Hishimo HTC Toys, Yonezawa:
-Animal Airplane - "Huckleberry Hound" pilot.
-Japanese pilot, dark green camouflage, red Japanese insignia with white characters on wings and body (certainly sold under different brand name).
-"Little Klinker," plastic yellow dog with long black ears as pilot, pale grey overall, green upper fuselage stripe, red cowling and wingtips, "Little Klinker" in red on fuselage, 538335 in black on wing (After a Tennessee Ernie Ford song about a puppy).
-"Little Klinker," as above, vinyl Mickey Mouse pilot.
-"Little Klinker," as above, pilot figure in open cockpit, may be incorrect repair.
-"Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck," Mickey pilot, light green, lithographed cartoons.
-"Quick Draw McGraw" pilot.
Aqua Plane, 13" WS, battery remote control, pontoons, single-engine monoplane, blue-green overall.
Curtiss JN4D Jenny, 14" WS, battery remote control, grey plastic 2-bladed prop, yellow/orange striped wings with star-in-circle insignia on upper and N-X-211 in red on lower, yellow tail with red/white/blue fin flash and N-X-211 NYP, silver fuselage with black tin engine cylinders/exhaust pipes and "Spirit of Linemar" titles in red, two yellow pilot heads, same tooling as Suzuki & Edward.
LM-59 airplane, 9" L, friction, large red/yellow three-bladed prop, shaped like F-104, white with dark blue and red markings.
Ryan NYP Spirit of St Louis, 7" WS, friction, J4752, yellow, blue pyramid-shaped nose, NX-211 on both left and right wings in black.
Ryan NYP Spirit of St Louis, 7 1/2" WS, friction, tail wheel drives plastic 2-bladed prop, silver, yellow nose with fish scales, NX-211 on wing in blue, small "Spirit of St Louis" titles on body, "Ryan NYP" on tail.

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MASUDA
This toy company from Colombia produced several variants of circa 1980 wide-body jet airliner egg-shaped caricatures, in plastic with tinplate upper fuselages lithographed in the colors of Latin American airlines. They are equipped with friction motors.

Airliner, Jet:
Boeing 747 - Avianca Colombia, Ecuatoriana
Douglas DC-10 - VIASA
Generic jet - Aerocondor Colombia

MASUDAYA
"Modern Toys" or Masudaya, whose trademark is a T superimposed upon an M, in a diamond, all within an oval, was founded in the 1920s. The streamlined high-wing "Ryusen" monoplane was an early aeronautical product. This firm, along with the Spanish firm Juguetes y Estuches, using similar tooling, issued the very best of the tin Boeing 727s among its aeronautical toy products, in two sizes. Masudaya issued the only tin toys of the famous and long-lived C-130 Hercules and the dramatic YF-12, which became the SR-71 Blackbird. Its factory also manufactured the Aero Mini die cast models of the 1960s and 70s.

Airliners:

Boeing 377 Stratocruiser, 8" WS, friction, metal 4-bladed props, large main wheels, aqua fuselage and wings, dark blue lower fuselage, red tail and markings, yellow cheat line with red UNIVERSAL AIRWAYS titles, N1032V.
Boeing 377 Stratocruiser, 12" WS, friction, blue overall, red and yellow cheat lines, red/yellow markings on tail fin with US flag,  American World Airways titles, AWA N1101V in yellow on wings.
-As above,  Pan American World Airways titles,  PAA on wings.
Boeing 377 Stratocruiser, 12" WS, wind-up, plastic propellers and large plastic propeller at rear, light green, red cheat line, orange-yellow wings, blue/white/red star-in-circle logo aft fuselage,  WALV. (Suspected)
Bristol Britannia, friction, 4-bladed plastic props, red plastic cowlings, silver overall, red and dark blue American Airlines markings, "Electra Flagship" titles.
"DC-7C," #3692, 18” WS, battery, plastic wings similar to or same as Tomiyama Viscount derived from Schuco Radiant 5600, swept tail fin, in the following color schemes:
-American Airlines.
-Japan Air Lines, plastic underparts, swept tail fin, white 4-bladed propellers, red dome light, green and red wing lights, silver/white with red and blue markings, JA8482.
-Pan American, plastic underparts, swept tail fin, white 4-bladed propellers, red dome light, green and red wing lights, stand, silver/white with blue markings.
-Pan American, plastic underparts, swept tail fin, transparent lighted yellow-green 4-bladed propellers, red dome light, green and red wing lights, silver/white with blue markings.
Lockheed C-130 Hercules, 22 1/2" WS, 4-bladed plastic props, USAF, in the following color schemes:
-Battery, large dome light, silver.
-Battery, large dome light, patchwork silver and blue-green rectangles, 3243 on tail fin.
-Battery, large dome light, green.
-Friction, silver-blue, red details, 80714 on tail fin.

Airliners, Jet:

Boeing 727, 10 1/4" WS, battery, silver/white:
-All-Nippon Airways, plastic lower fuselage, lighted transparent red plastic engines, silver/white with blue markings, DaVinci helicopter in circle on white tail fin, JA8307.
-Boeing, red prototype colors, N72700.
-Lufthansa, blue/yellow markings, D-ABIC.
Boeing 727, 18" WS, battery, with or without radio control, silver/white, blue cheat line, blue/red broken stripe up tail fin, black Boeing 727 titles.
Boeing 727, 18" WS, battery, plastic with tin upper fuselage and tail surfaces, transparent red /white plastic jet pods, oblong red and green wing lights, silver/white, red/blue Boeing house colors, "BOEING N72700" in raised letters on wings, silver/white, blue cheat line, blue/red broken stripe up tail fin, black Boeing 727 titles.
Boeing 727, (?) WS, # 3443, battery, lighted engines, wing lights, silver/white with blue/yellow Lufthansa markings, D-ABIB.
Boeing 737, 10 1/4" WS, battery, transparent red plastic jet pods, same fuselage/wings/stabilizers as 727, silver/white, red/blue Boeing house colors, N73700.
Boeing 737, 18" WS, battery, plastic with tin upper fuselage and tail surfaces, transparent red /white plastic jet pods, oblong red and green wing lights, silver/white, red/blue Boeing house colors, "BOEING 737" in raised letters on wings.
Boeing 747 #3817, 9" WS, friction, plastic with tin upper fuselage only, Schuco mold, grey/white, in the following color schemes:
-Boeing, red house colors.
-Japan Air Lines, red/blue cheat lines, red Tsuru crane logo on tail fin, JA8101.
-Pan American, blue markings.
-TWA-Trans World Airlines, red markings with golden globes.
-United, blue and red, "Friend Ship."
Boeing 747, 27 1/2" WS, friction, red plastic jet pods, plastic underparts, silver/white, in the following color schemes:
-Boeing, red house colors.
-Japan Air Lines, dark blue and red with Tsuru logo on tail fin.
-Pan American, blue markings.
DeHavilland Comet I, 8 1/2" WS, friction with sparks, pale greenish blue, red cheat line, dark blue/red details including lightning stripe and star, blue blazes on jet engine nacelles, dark blue "DH 106 Comet" titles, red plastic cut-outs on wings.
DeHavilland Comet I, 8 1/2" WS, friction with sparks, silver/off white with dark blue cheat line, dark blue/red details including lightning stripe and star, lengthwise blue wing stripes, red blazes on jet engine nacelles, dark blue "DH 106 Comet" titles, red plastic cut-outs on wings.
DeHavilland Comet I, 10 1/2" WS, friction with sparks, pale greenish-grey-blue, dark blue cheat lines and markings, red "Comet" titles and trim lines, blue motor box and strut.
DeHavilland Comet I, 10 1/2" WS, wind-up, no undercarriage, hangs from ceiling, large plastic propeller at rear, silver with red cheat line.
Douglas DC-8, very large, friction, Japan Air Lines.
Douglas DC-9, 10 1/4" WS, battery, silver/white, twin-engine version of Boeing 727 tooling (see above), red and blue Douglas DC-9 prototype house colors.
Douglas DC-10, 9" WS, friction, plastic with tin upper fuselage only, grey/white:
-Douglas, blue and red Douglas house colors, "McDonnell Douglas DC-10" titles in black.
-United, blue and red United "Friend Ship" livery.
Vickers VC-10, 20" WS, battery, lighted engines, plastic wings and lower fuselage, grey/white with dark blue markings, VC-10 titles.

Fighters:

PX-52, friction, two-bladed prop with plated cowling, machine guns on wings; yellow fuselage has red upper portion and stripes, medium blue trim lines, "PX-52" in dark blue; red wings have blue leading edges and post-WWII USAF insignia; yellow tail fin has medium blue leading edge and red band with "P-52" in white.

Fighters, Jet:

Blue Star, friction, window on upper fuselage, swept wings with large red/yellow fuel tanks, plastic canopy and needle nose, comet logos, bright blue overall with rivet details and "Blue Star" titles.
Fighter, F-80 Shooting Star type, blue.
Grumman Cougar, 8" WS, 6 3/4" L, friction with sparks, large metal wheels, swept wings, silver with red and yellow markings, #10 Navy.
Grumman Panther, 6 3/4" WS, friction, green, red and yellow markings, red plastic canopy.
Grumman Panther, 20 1/4" WS, turquoise with red details, Navy 799 B.
Grumman Panther, 20 1/4" WS, 116-A.
Lockheed F-80 Shooting Star, 11" WS, friction, silver with red details.
Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, 8” WS, 14” L, friction, swept wings, red window on upper fuselage with sparks, red plastic needle nose, four red plastic rockets under wings, chrome silver overall with blue leading edges and red tail fin tip, “US F-104.”
Lockheed YF-12 (SR-71 Blackbird), friction, red/blue/chrome silver.
McDonnell F4 Phantom in the following color schemes:
-Battery, four red rockets, chrome with yellow and blue markings.
-Friction, blue/red/yellow.
-Friction, silver/pale blue with red markings, US Air Force, shield on tail.
-Friction, green camouflage.
North American F-100 Super Sabre, 6" L, friction with sparks, silver.
Swept-wing Fighter, friction, spinning propeller and visible engine.

Helicopters:

Bell 47, 13 3/4" L, wind-up, 2-bladed metal main rotor, highly detailed, large pontoons, clear canopy with metal pilot figurine, cut-out "cage" rear fuselage, red/yellow, white Police titles.
Bell 47, 16" L, battery, plastic canopy and main rotor, tail disc, two plastic fuel tanks, tin pilot figurines in detailed interior, cut-out "cage" rear fuselage, black/white, "Police Dpt" titles, P-110.
H-2 Helicopter, 7" L, wind-up, 3-bladed rotor, large plastic rear propeller, skis, red/white.
P-27 Sky Patrol, wind-up, large clear canopy with pilot figurine, white plastic 2-bladed main rotor and tail boom cage, orange plastic skids, yellow plastic fuel tanks and tail rotor, blue/white tin body.
Rescue Helicopter, 6" L, wind-up, 3-bladed metal main rotor, metal wheels, US Air Force 555.
Sikorsky S-51, 8" L, wind-up, 2-bladed main rotor, clear canopy with pilot, Army A-18.
Sikorsky S-51, 10 1/2" L, 3-bladed metal main rotor, dark blue, Navy 37014.
Sikorsky S-61, 18" L, battery, 3-bladed metal main rotor, plastic canopy with plastic pilot figurines, olive with orange-red markings, Army H-4820.

Light Aircraft:

Beechcraft Baron, 12" WS, battery remote control, plastic canopy, 3400, red/white.
Beechcraft Baron, 15 1/2” WS, friction, plastic canopy, two plastic 3-bladed props, detailed interior, silver/red, 3311.
Beechcraft Bonanza Loop The Loop Power Plane, 9" WS, battery, clear windows, yellow plastic 2-bladed prop, navy blue and white with red pin stripes, A-104, "Beechcraft" on wing in white.
Piper 180 Comanche, 12 1/2" WS, friction.
Swallow, 9" WS, battery remote control, high wing monoplane caricature, plastic head in cockpit, machine gun atop wing.

Spacecraft:

Rockwell Space Shuttle, 9" WS, battery, red and blue dome lights and three lighted red plastic rocket exhausts, off-white tin plate upper parts, blue plastic lower parts, Columbia or Enterprise name, stylized NASA titles and US flag on wing, late 1970s.

MASUYA - Fine Toy
This maker is not the same as Masudaya. The symbol is an "S" inside a hollow "M." There is another X-15 with similar mechanism made in France by Joustra. In addition to its aircraft, Masuya issued several variants of a Moon Rocket with ladder and astronaut.

Airliners:

Douglas DC-7, 6 1/2" WS, friction, 4-bladed metal props, white/silver, blue windows, dark blue and red Pan American markings, nose wheel, "DC-7" on tail where PAA should be, N7010V.
Douglas DC-8, 5 1/2" WS, friction, uses DC-7 fuselage and tail, red metal jet pods:
-American Airlines, bright royal blue, red markings, four widthwise off-white stripes on wings, N303AA.
-Pan American, silver/white, blue Pan American 60s color scheme, N900PA.
-Trans-Canada Air Lines "CF TG"
-USAF, silver with yellow cheat line, dark blue and red trim, USAF “Boeing 707” on tail fin (same markings: S2 toy).
-As above, Royal Canadian maple leaf insignia.

Other:

Blue Eagle, 15” L, battery remote control, T tail, small red plastic windows at rear fuselage, short wings, yellow needle nose, dark blue with red upper fuselage, red/blue chevron on tail fin, “Space Rocket” on fuselage, “Blue Eagle” on tail fin.
X-15, 9" L, friction, stands up when it strikes a wall, white, USAF 66670.
X-15, 9" L, friction, stands up when it strikes a wall, "Nike" titles.

MATARAZZO
Matarazzo was a toy manufacturer from Argentina. The firm made a high-wing monoplane with a single metal two-bladed propeller, similar to those made in various European countries in the 1930s. The dazzling bright yellow plane has a bright red and blue pattern of repeating triangles lithographed along the wing, and bears Matarazzo's name and "rounded M" trademark as well as "Industria Argentina."

Airliner:
Armagnac (?) Airliner, wind-up, key attached to left rear fuselage, four three-bladed metal propellers, steerable nose wheel, yellow with red markings, NC-153.

MEMO, see Gutmann

MESEM (Taiwan, 1970s)
Mesem is a Taiwanese firm that used tooling similar to that used by Alps to produce battery-operated airplanes in the 70s. Mesem also issued an all-plastic F-16 that fires rockets. See also Alps and Vohratoys.

Airliners, Jet:

Boeing 737, 14" WS, battery, lighted red jet pods, 1970s CP Air colors, orange/red, green wings, CF-CUM/N737U.
Boeing 747, 15" L, 14" WS, battery, grey and white plastic, transparent red lighted jet pods with white pylons, tin upper wings, red/yellow plastic cabin seating visible through clear plastic upper fuselage, Pan American.
Douglas DC-10, 14" WS, battery, lighted red jet pods, visible interior, 1970s orange/red/blue United livery, exactly the same as Alps toy (see).

METALMA-Metalurgico Matarazzo SA
This Brazilian firm might have been producing toys in the 1960s, 70s, and even the 80s. The trademark is MM styled to fit inside a circle - Argentina's Matarazzo has a single M inside the circle.

Airliners, Jet:

Boeing 747 (Jumbo Boeing 747), 7" WS, friction, Koyo Kinzoku tooling, in the following color schemes: Alitalia, Avianca Colombia, Iberia, KLM, Lufthansa, TAP (Transportes Aereos Portugueses), VARIG. 1970s and possibly into 1980s.
Douglas DC-8, #961, 16 1/2" WS, friction, Alps 707 tooling, silver/white, accurate blue VARIG markings with registration PP-VJA.

Fighters, Jet:

Lockheed F-104 "Silver Star," 16" L, friction, clear plastic canopy, green and gold star insignia and black FAB (Brazilian Air Force) on wings:
-Blue/white
-Red/white
Lockheed F-104, battery remote control, with wingtip tanks and underwing rockets, light grey with red markings, green and gold star insignia and black FAB (Brazilian Air Force) markings
Straight-wing Jet C-500, friction, wingtip tanks, similar to Saito S2 toy, blue plastic tail fin, blue/green/red/yellow.

METRO (Taiwan, 1970s)
Metro is a Taiwanese firm that used Nikko Gangu/Nomura tooling to produce battery-operated airplanes in the 1970s. There is a grey F-111 battery toy military jet with working swing wings in this series. The unmarked Taiwan TWA DC-9 could also be from this firm, as both this toy and the F-111 have the same, stenciled red letters on the boxes.

METTOY
Britain's Mettoy had a line of tin planes in the 1930s that continued in the late 1940s. Most of them were wind-up toys with single propellers, but Mettoy made a jet airliner by fitting a Douglas DC-2 with red plastic engine pods. The firm's attractive line of die cast Corgi Toys, introduced in 1956, became wildly successful.

Airliners:

Douglas DC-2 Jetliner #2016/I, 20" WS, wind-up, transparent red plastic engine pods, white with dark blue and red markings, Mettoy Airways GA-AGX.
Super Skyliner, 17" WS, wind-up, red plastic three-bladed prop, metal wheels, yellow overall with dark blue cowling, red and blue lithographed details with G-AMTY on the wings in red and "Super Skyliner" titles on fuselage with round cabin windows.

Fighter:

Low-wing Monoplane, wind-up, 15" WS, yellow 2-bladed prop, red cowling, lithographed pilots, bright green/ocher/orange-red camouflage with RAF insignia, solid green tail fin, "WZ F" in white on rear fuselage.

Light Aircraft:

High-wing Monoplane, 16 3/4" WS, wind-up, metal 2-bladed prop, voided cabin windows, silver with red markings on fuselage, red triangular tail fin, G-AMTY on wings in red, K 2010 in small print on both wings.
Mechanical Monoplane, wind-up, plastic prop, twin tail fins, silver or yellow overall with blue cheat line, RAF insignia on wings.
Space Patrol, wind-up, red plastic wheels, high wing with single 3-bladed prop, red overall with intricate futuristic graphics, "Space Patrol" titles on wing.

MIC
A French company called Mic issued a toy jet plane with straight-wings in the 1950s.

Airliner, Jet:

Mic 52, 8 ½” WS, wind up, metal canopy atop fuselage, skids below wingtips, red or silver, “Mic” in script on tail fin, “MIC 52” on wings, seven round cabin windows.

MITSUHASHI
Mitsuhashi sporadically produced tin airplanes in the 1950s and 1960s. The trademark is an M inside a triangle. The airplanes made from tooling similar to that of Momoya might indicate a relationship between the two firms.

Airliner:

Douglas C-124, 11 1/2" WS, friction, 3-bladed metal props, wing tip tanks, white/grey, Northwest color scheme marked as DC-7, dark blue cheat line and red tail fins, dark blue cowlings, MU9-3190 on wing.

Airliners, Jet:

Boeing 707, 13" WS, friction, dramatically swept wings, red plastic jet pods, silver/white with blue and red Pan American markings "P707PA;" also AA, United, see Momoya.
Boeing 707, 13" WS, friction, dramatically swept wings, red plastic jet pods, silver/white with blue Pan American markings in italicized font; also AA, United, see Momoya.
Boeing 707, 12 1/2" WS, friction, 4 red plastic engines, white metal strip joins fuselage halves, Caravelle tooling, stabilizers low on fuselage as 707, silver/white, medium blue Pan American colors, N707PA.
DH Comet I, 10" WS, friction with sparks, red plastic windows on wings, off-white wings/upper fuselage, light green lower fuselage, dark green cheat line/engines, red trim and titles, 108b.
Military transport (Suspected), 12 1/2" WS, friction, silver metal strip joins fuselage halves, Caravelle tooling with 4 jet pods under wings, stabilizers high near tail fin as Caravelle, camouflage finish.

Fighter:

North American P-51 Mustang, 14" WS, friction, 4-bladed yellow plastic prop, light and dark green camouflage finish, white US Air Force titles, same tooling as Momoya toy in silver.

Light Plane:

Biplane, 12" WS, friction, red/light blue, USAF markings, N.2356, made from constructor kit.

MIYAZAWA (MSK, Shi Shi)
This series of cute little propeller airliners is based on the DC-6 and the Constellation. The same tooling was used for all the airplanes, with changes in lithography and additional two small extra tail fins for the Connie. Variants of the Constellation were made with the Line Mar and Louis Marx trademarks, most famously with Mickey Mouse! It is likely that neither MSK nor Shi Shi (i.e., small dog) brand name was an actual manufacturer; rather, they were toy exporters.

Airliners:

Douglas DC-6 or DC-7, 7 1/2" WS, friction, metal 3-bladed props, silver/white with blue Pan American markings.
Douglas DC-6 or DC-7, 7 1/2" WS, friction, metal 3-bladed props, silver/white with dark blue/red United markings.
Lockheed Constellation, 7 1/2" WS, friction, metal 3-bladed props, in the following color schemes:
-Eastern, silver with blue/red markings, "Fly-Eastern Air Lines" titles and falcon logos.
-Northwest, silver/white with red/blue markings.
-TWA, silver/off-white with red and dark blue markings, N4466C.

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MŌMŌYA - Peach trademark
Japan's Momoya produced a variety of tin toy airplanes in the 1950s and 1960s that are so stylized that one cannot accurately identify them. An Eastern Air Lines Constellation was made using "stereotypical 1950s airliner" tooling fitted with a triple tail! The best of the Momoya planes are the Superfortress bombers, because they are both the most realistically shaped and the best detailed. They are not as common as the Tomiyama B-50s.

Airliners:

Twin-engine Airliner, friction, red plastic four-blade props, small rectangular red plastic windows on engines, same fuselage as Jet Passenger Plane, silver with blue and red markings, American Airlines N301AA "Flagship Fleet," D7C on tail fin.
Boeing Stratocruiser, 15 1/2" WS, friction, 4-bladed metal props, in the following color schemes:
Northwest, silver/white with dark blue cheat line, red tail fin, also with TN trademark.
Pan American, silver, off-white top, "PAA" on blue stripe on tail, dark blue markings, red underside and cowlings, N2688V "Clipper World."
Trans-Canada Air Lines, silver with blue cheat lines and red trim, PH-TCT "North Star."(N.B.: The real North Star was a modified, Canadian-built Douglas DC-4).
Four-Prop Plane Miniature, 6” WS, friction, metal props, Pan American, silver/white, red cheat lines, dark blue details, N1401 (Suspected).
Four-Prop Plane, 9" WS, friction, streamlined body with short tail fin, light blue wings, red engines, Pan American.
Four-Prop Plane, 10" WS, friction, 3-bladed metal props same as on Tomiyama/Yonezawa Super Constellation, wings made from tooling very similar to that used for Tomiyama/Yonezawa Super Constellation, streamlined body with short tail fin attached, in the following color schemes:
American Airlines, silver with orange-red and dark blue markings.
Douglas, house colors, white overall, red and dark blue cheat lines, four dark blue bands on wings surrounding engine nacelles, red control surfaces and wingtips, “Douglas Seven Seas” titles, dark blue "Douglas N7DC" on wings.
Military Air Transport Service, silver, dark blue fuselage, white titles, similar to markings on Line Mar Super Constellation.
Pan American, silver/white, red cheat lines, dark blue details, N1401 "Strato Clipper" with or without "D7C" on tail fin.
Pan American, white globe on medium blue tail fin, blue wings.
United, silver/white with dark blue and red markings.
Lockheed Super Constellation, 15 1/2" WS, 3-bladed metal props, two friction motors below wings, no ridges on fuselage, silver overall, red leading edges and spinners, blue/red "Fly-Eastern Air Lines" scheme with red falcons, yellow windows, N6225C.

Airliners, Jet:

Boeing 707-120, 13" WS, friction, dramatically swept wings, red plastic jet pods, same tooling as Mitsuhashi, in the following color schemes:
Alitalia, silver with white crown, multiple dark and light blue cheat lines, large capitalized letters, green/white/red tail stripes, I-DIWT (Mitsuhashi or Momoya - no trademark seen)
American Airlines, silver with red and black markings.
Lufthansa, silver/white with blue/yellow markings, D-ABOH.
United, silver/white with medium blue and red 1960s markings, “DC-8 Mainliner” titles.
Boeing 707-120 (?), 13" WS, friction, streamlined fuselage with short tail fin, metal jet pods, silver/white, white globe on blue tail fin, Pan American "Clipper Meteor" titles.
Boeing 720 (?) Jet Passenger Plane, 11 3/4" WS, friction, streamlined fuselage with short tail fin, red plastic jet pods, in the following color schemes:
American Airlines, silver with red/black markings.
Eastern, silver/white with dark blue cheat line, red falcon on tail fin, "Fly Eastern" titles.
Northwest, white, blue cheat line, red tail fin, “Orient” in small script letters near tail fin
Pan American, silver/white, white globe on blue tail fin, "Clipper Meteor."
Pan American, silver/white, medium blue 1960s colors, N-801PA "Clipper Meteor."
TWA, silver/white, 50s colors with twin red cheat lines, black leading edges, N720T.
TWA, silver/white, red cheat line, with or without "Convair 880" titles.
United, silver/white, blue cheat line with rectangular windows, broken blue stripe up tail fin, red titles.
United, silver/white, blue cheat line with triangular windows, broken blue and red stripe up tail fin, black titles.
Douglas DC-8, 11" WS, friction, made from Caravelle mold, no engines, silver/white with red Air Canada livery.
SE-210 Caravelle, 11" WS, friction, silver/white with blue and red United livery.
SE-210 Caravelle, 12 1/2" WS, friction, silver metal strip joins fuselage halves, red tin engines, 1960s United livery with square cabin windows, "Caravelle" titles in script.("Mego" name on box lid in addition to Momoya peach trade mark)

Bombers:

Boeing B-29/B-50 Superfortress, 15 1/2" WS, friction, 4-bladed metal props, USAF, in the following color schemes:
Light blue, red details, "W" on tail fin.
Olive drab camouflage, BK-260, 157048.
Silver blue with red, white, and dark blue details.

Fighters:

North American P-51 Mustang, 14" WS, friction, 4-bladed plastic prop, same tooling as green Mitsuhashi toy, in the following color schemes:
Red plastic prop, silver, red nose, light blue trailing edges, USAF markings, lithographed pilot, "F-17" and "VFL" on fuselage sides, 253117 on tail.
Yellow plastic prop, silver, red nose with 5 exhaust ports per side, red wingtips and diagonal red wing bars, white US Air Force markings with insignia, lithographed pilot.

Fighters, Jet:

F-84, 14" WS, friction, straight wings with fuel tanks at tips, in the following color schemes:
Air Force jet "F-8S," silver with yellow/blue markings.
Air Force jet, silver with red lightning bolt on fuselage and red trailing edges, USAF #61072, FG-072 on tail fin.
Navy jet, F8A, blue, 37705.
Navy jet, red.
Navy jet, silver/yellow.
RAAF Royal Australian Air Force with kangaroo roundel, see Daishin-DSK.

Helicopters:

Sikorsky S-55, 12" L, battery, 3-bladed plastic rotor, green-grey with blue flight deck portion, H-5 and large red "Atlantic" titles.
Sikorsky S-55 H-19 Rescue, wind-up, 3-bladed metal rotor, silver with blue and red markings.
Navy Helicopter, 11" L, wind-up, unstepped nose, 3-blade metal main rotor, 4-blade plastic tail rotor, silver/blue, lithographed pilots.

Light Plane:

Patrol plane, 14" WS, friction, 2-bladed red plastic prop, cabin atop wings with lithographed uniformed police officers, white/grey fuselage with police shield and yellow markings, grey/yellow wings and tail, "Patrol A-1026-S" on wings in black.

MONT BLANC
Japan may be the home of Alps Shoji toys, but Jouets Mont Blanc is named after the highest alp in France. Mont Blanc is known for its fine series of toy airliners in Air France colors. The Viscount boasts an all-metal body, but the jetliners have molded plastic grey wings with tin fuselages. Some Mont Blanc remote-control toys have the wire attached to the top of the fuselage, amidships, instead of underneath the wings as on Japanese tin toys.

Airliner:

Vickers Viscount, 17 1/2" WS, battery, 4-bladed blue plastic props, wing tip lights, opening oval cabin door, silver/white, detailed blue Air France livery, pilots and passengers in windows, grey plastic nose wheels.
Vickers Viscount, 17 1/2" WS, friction, 4-bladed blue plastic props, opening oval cabin door, silver/white, detailed blue Air France livery, pilots and passengers in windows, grey plastic nose wheels.

Airliners, Jet:

Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde, plastic wings and lower fuselage and nose, white with red cheat line, medium blue paper label on tail fin, Concorde titles.
Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde, plastic wings and lower fuselage and nose, grey/white with dark blue Air France markings.
Boeing 707, 19" WS, molded grey plastic wings, realistic landing gear, white with dark blue Air France markings, paper label on tail fin, name Château du Rambouillet lithographed on nose in script.
Boeing 707, 19" WS, battery remote control, transparent red plastic jet pods, molded grey plastic wings, realistic landing gear, white with dark blue Air France markings, paper label on tail fin, name Château de Maintenan lithographed on nose in script, F-BHSA.
Boeing 727, 17" WS, friction, molded grey lower fuselage and white plastic wings/tail, realistic landing gear, two red cheat lines, paper band on tail fin, F-BHSA.
Boeing 727, 19" WS, battery remote control, molded grey plastic wings, realistic landing gear, white with dark and light blue Air France markings, dark blue paper band on tail fin, F-BHSA.
SE-210 Caravelle, 17 3/4" WS, molded grey plastic wings, realistic landing gear, white with dark blue Air France markings, retracting stairway below aft fuselage, paper label on tail fin, F-BHRA.

MONTROSE
Montrose is a Canadian toy importer. This firm's name appears on a box for a Japanese-made Toys Nomura battery-operated Air Canada 747.

MOSCHKOWITZ
Despite its Russian-sounding name, the Moschkowitz firm is one of many based in the traditional German toy-making center, Nürnberg, early in the twentieth century, when it issued a tin toy of the WWI observation airplane, Rumpler Taube. Moschkowitz issued at least one tin airplane in the post-WWII years.

Light Aircraft:

Single-engine Monoplane #205, 6" WS, wind-up, small three-bladed prop, grossly oversized main wheels, metal nose wheel strut, tubular fuselage with flight deck just behind cowling, white with red cheat line and dark blue pin stripes.

ND trademark
In the 1970s the ND manufacturer issued a small airplane caricature with a circular metal prop, but this logo is usually found on small toy helicopters made in Japan in the 1980s out of plastic with tinplate components. Made in several sizes, these toy helicopters have a generic shape and four-bladed main rotors made from two overlapping, two-bladed, usually yellow, plastic pieces.

Helicopters:

Airline Helicopter, 6" L, friction, off-white plastic bottom, yellow 4-bladed main rotor, white/orange/red/blue United markings, N90U, other airline markings available.
Bell 47 Helicopter, 3 3/8" L, friction, flat nose, metal 4-bladed rotor, green, Army.
Bell 47 Helicopter, 3 3/8" L, friction, sloping nose, plastic 4-bladed rotor, chrome silver, Rescue with red cross.
Army Helicopter, 3 ½” L, friction, bright green plastic bottom, yellow 4-bladed main rotor, green lithographed tin upper body with cabin details.
Fire Rescue Helicopter, 3 5/6" L, friction, white plastic bottom, yellow 4-bladed main rotor, lithographed tin upper body, red, "FD rescue" titles.
Police Helicopter, 4" L, friction, black plastic bottom, yellow 4-bladed main rotor, "Police" titles.
Rescue Helicopter, friction, white plastic bottom, yellow 4-bladed main rotor, white/blue lithographed tin upper body with lithographed cabin and “Rescue” in yellow.

Streamlined Helicopter, 3 ½” L, friction, earlier model with all-metal body, 4-bladed metal or yellow plastic main rotor, in the following color schemes:
Army, bright light green, rockets on sides.
Emergency Rescue, red.
Police Patrol, white.

Streamlined Helicopter, 5” L, friction, rounded stepped nose, 4-bladed plastic main rotor, silver, bright light blue aft fuselage, red tail, “Daily Sports” in red, N-2507.

Light Aircraft:

Single-prop Airplane, 3" WS, friction, metal 3-bladed prop inside a circle, blue plastic tail fin, red/white/blue, "MBB 209."
Single-prop Airplane, 3" WS, friction, metal 3-bladed prop inside a circle, yellow plastic tail fin, red/yellow/blue, "TBM 520."
(See also Lemy-Poliumex).

NS trademark
Helicopter collector Mark Driver has identified a mysterious toy that appears in Ron Smith's 1995 book. It once belonged to Yoku Tanaka, a famous toy collector.

Helicopter:

Experimental Helicopter, 9 1/2" WS, resembles Doak 16, streamlined fuselage like that of jet fighter, straight wings with revolving ducted fans at wingtips, needle nose, clear plastic canopy, silvery-blue with red upper fuselage, USAF.

NAITŌ SHŌTEN - A N TOY
This lesser-known Japanese brand had a lesser-known jet plane in its line: the Bell X-2 "Starbuster." The X-2 succeeded the famous orange, straight-wing X-1 of 1947, which had been the first plane to exceed the speed of sound.

Fighters Jet:

Bell Aircraft X-2, 10" L, friction, plastic canopy and needle nose, red plastic inserts on fuselage sides, white overall with red X-2 titles.
Rocket plane, 10 ½” L, friction, wingless, engines located above tail plane have colored springs in exhaust pipes that move in and out, plastic canopy and needle nose, red plastic window atop fuselage, white overall with red speedbird markings (Suspected-NS trade mark).

NAKAYAMA
Nakayama toys tend to be fairly small and simple. Trademark is a hollow N within an elongated oval.

Fighter, Jet:

Cessna A-37, 9 1/2" WS, friction, straight wings, in the following color schemes:
With or without wingtip tanks, lithographed pilot, pale blue with red and dark blue markings, USAF insignia, 2735 on tail fin. Planes with wingtip tanks have wings that detach underneath; those without tanks have wings that fit through a slot in the fuselage.
Clouded dark/medium green camouflage, USAF insignia, JF201 on tail fin.
Red/white, "Thunder Jet" titles in black on fuselage, "FX-109" on tail fin in black.
White, pale blue lengthwise interior stripe on wings, red nose and wingtips, USAF markings, MA-7 on tail fin.

Helicopters:

Sikorsky S-55/UH-19B Chickasaw, wind-up, three-blade metal rotor, silver, red Mobilgas-style Pegasus on nose, USAF 137003, sold through Straco (FJ Strauss Co).
VT-107, 7 1/2" L, wind-up, metal 3-bladed rotors, in the following colors:
United Nations - white/medium blue.
US Army - green.
Vertol 107 Sightseeing - white/red.

NIHON BOEKI - K K K trademark inside diamond
This Japanese toymaker issued a generic jet fighter in several different color schemes. This airplane is sometimes identified as a McDonnell F3H-2 Demon, though it also resembles a Fiat G-91.

Airliner:

Twin-engine Airliner, 10” WS, friction, 4-bladed plastic props, pointed nose, swept tail surfaces, nose wheel, similar tooling used for Pan American 707:
American, bright blue, silver lower fuselage and inner wing portions, red trim, American Airlines “707,” “AA N604” on wings in red (Suspected).
TWA, white/silver, full "Trans World Airlines" titles in black on otherwise red '60s color scheme without golden globes, N731TW
United, medium blue cheat line and tail “spear” symbol, red titles and nacelle cowlings, N8021U (KKK trade mark present)-sold as Cragstan Toy # 1472-6.

Airliner, Jet:

Boeing 707, friction, unidentified trade mark, red plastic engines, nose wheel, similar tooling used for American Airlines Twin-engine Airliner (Suspected).
-Navy, royal blue with red wingtips and tips of tail surfaces, lithographed round cabin windows, “NAVY” in yellow on wing.
-Pan American, silver/white with medium blue colors, "PAN AM" on both wings, "B-707" on rear fuselage.

Fighter, Jet:

Swept-wing Jet, 6 1/4" WS, friction, round head clips join fuselage halves:
Air Force.
Army Jet, gold, lightning stripes, 25001.
Navy Jet.

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NIKKŌ GANGU KŌGYŌ (N-G-K) and NOMURA (T.N trademark)
Nikkō Gangu Kōgyō is a prolific Japanese toy brand with a distinctive symbol: a "G" surrounding a circle into which fits a thin, curving "N" and "K." Most toy planes with this trademark also feature the T.N in a diamond for Toys Nomura. The two companies are distinct entities, but it is impossible to tell which one was the actual manufacturer, and which one acted as the export agent. Furthermore, the same tooling was used to make several Line Mar and Marx toy planes; therefore, a battery 707 jet with 14 1/2" wing span in American Airlines markings with the T.N trademark was also sold in TWA markings with the Marx trademark. This very 707 fuselage, modified to incorporate clear plastic cabin windows, also became a Lockheed Electra fuselage! N-G-K / T.N excelled at making the most of its tooling, with abundant variants (including surprising choices such as Libyan Arab Airlines), and usually good quality fittings and lithography.

Not every N-G-K / T.N brand toy airplane was stereotypical in appearance. The beautiful model of a 1920s Ford 4-AT tri-motor was modeled on NX4542, the example preserved on display in the Henry Ford Museum in Michigan. The Republic Sea Bee "Clipper" amphibian, with its above-fuselage pusher propeller, is another notable Nikko Gangu toy plane, a model that other manufacturers ignored. The Super DC-3 airplane is particularly interesting: though not a true scale model, it is the only toy replica of this plane. This scarce toy represents Douglas' post-World War Two attempt to modernize its DC-3 at a time when relatively cheap war surplus aircraft glutted the market. As a result, Douglas built very few Super DC-3s, and the public was unfamiliar with this aircraft. These toys contrast with the usual N-G-K / T.N products.

Toys Nomura continued to sell battery toy airliners with stylized shapes made in Hong Kong through the late 70s into the 1980s; because only T.N appears on the boxes and the toys, the manufacturer is clear. As late as the 1990s Taiwan's Son Ai Toys reissued an F-14 Tomcat that is nearly identical to the original Nikko Gangu version from the 70s; the "N-G-K" trademark even remains as part of the lithographed finish.

Airliners:

Boeing Stratocruiser, 14 1/2" WS:
Battery remote control, large wingtip lights, metal 4-bladed props with rounded tips, pale greenish blue, darker blue cheat line and wing leading edges, red tail surfaces, “North West” (two words) titles, “Liner” on wing in red.
Friction or battery remote control, metal 4-bladed props with rounded tips, silver, red and dark blue Northwest markings, N31901. N.B.: Similar Alps toy has square-tipped props.
Friction, metal 4-bladed props with rounded tips, silver/off-white, dark blue Pan American colors with red details, N1030V "Strato" Clipper on tail, "Sky Chief" near nose. See also: Hadson. N.B.: Similar Alps toy has square-tipped props.
Friction with battery wing lights, metal 4-bladed props with rounded tips, silvery-blue, red and blue United Air Lines 1950s markings, "Mainliner Stratocruiser" N31225, "United Airlinr" (sic.) on nose shield.
Battery remote control, plastic props, transparent engine cowlings with lighted red interiors, silver/off-white with blue 1950s KLM Royal Dutch Airlines markings, "The Flying Dutchman" on one side of the fuselage and "De Vliegende Hollander" on the other, “PH KLM.”
15" WS, friction, Northwest (see Momoya).
19" WS, friction, grey/blue camouflage markings, "Boeing Stratocruiser" titles, "Silver King" on tail, NX1050V on wing.
19" WS, wind-up, no undercarriage, metal 4-bladed props, large 3-bladed plastic prop fitted at rear of fuselage, hangs from ceiling and "flies" in a circle, silver with red cheat line and leading edges, red band with PAA on tail fin, dark blue "Boeing Stratocruiser" titles and PAA winged globe on fuselage, dark blue "PAA N1005V" on wings.
19" WS, friction, silver overall, PAA N1006V with "Boeing Stratocruiser" titles.
Canadair CL-44 Swing Tail Cargo Plane, 14" WS, battery, working hinged rear fuselage, plastic underparts, silver overall, dark blue and red Flying Tiger Line markings, N447T. The larger examples (20" wing span) always have the Marx trademark (see).
Canadair CL-44 Swing Tail Cargo Plane, 14" WS, battery, working hinged rear fuselage, plastic underparts, silver/white with blue/yellow Lufthansa markings, D-ALOB.
Douglas DC-2 or -3, 10" WS, friction, metal 4-bladed props, red/light purplish-brown, yellow and pale green stripes, "D" inside yellow triangle on tail fin, USAF insignia on wings, small "TWA" in circle on nose, "Douglas Air Way" titles.
Douglas Super DC-3, friction, four-bladed metal props, off-white, blue-grey markings on wings, red cheat line and control surfaces, detailed Douglas logo with globe on fuselage, "DOUGLAS N3000" in dark blue on wings, US flag on tail fin, "Super DC-3" and "New York-San Francisco Line" titles on fuselage.
Douglas DC-7, 17" WS, friction, four-bladed metal props, braces under wings, dark and light green stripes, red/blue/yellow highlights, Pan American N36000, "Showa" trademark in addition to "T.N."
Douglas DC-7, 19" WS, battery, four-bladed plastic props, silver/white with dark blue AVENSA markings (Aerovias Venezolanas SA), Pan American winged globe on tail fin, YV-C-AVR on wing, red wingtips, same as Line Mar, American Airlines.
Douglas DC-7, 19" WS, friction, four-bladed plastic props, visible interior, same tooling as Line Mar, in the following color schemes:
Japan Air Lines, silver/white with red and blue markings.
SAS-Scandinavian Airlines System, silver/white with red and blue markings, "SK SAS" in blue on wings, small "Royal Viking" titles on nose.
United Air Lines, silver/white with dark blue and red 1950s markings.
Fairchild C-120 Pack Plane, 16" WS, friction, metal 4-bladed props, opening nose doors, silver with rivet detail, red upper fuselage and leading edges, friction wheels under fuselage and one tin wheel under each engine, three off-white stripes and yellow lightning bolt, "PACK PLANE" titles in blue and "FAIRCHILD" titles in red, US Air Force markings, red vertical stabilizers with three yellow stripes, blue/white finely striped control surfaces, with red tin tank and green tin Jeep inside.
-Lithographed tin nose doors.
-Clear plastic nose doors.
Ford Tri-Motor 4AT, 15" WS, friction, three 2-bladed plastic props, sandy pink, NX-4542.

Lockheed 188 Electra: T.N. Electras were made in the mid-to-late 1960s with one friction variant confirmed in the 1970s. They came in two sizes and feature lithographed tin upper fuselages and wings with molded grey plastic lower parts. Those with the 14" wingspan used the Canadair 44 wings, while those with the 16" wingspan had Electra wings fitted to the Boeing 707 fuselage modified to incorporate the round Electra tail fin. Most Electras had lighted interiors with clear plastic, raised-relief flight deck and cabin windows; those sold with the Marx trademark do not. The sturdy four-bladed white plastic props are the same as those used on the larger DC-7. The variants are as follows:
14" WS, battery, grey plastic engine nacelles and stabilizers, silver with red and blue American Airlines markings.
14" WS, battery, grey plastic engine nacelles and stabilizers, silver/white with dark blue and aqua KLM Royal Dutch Airlines markings, PH-DSF in red on wing.
Multi-Action Electra Jet, 16" WS, smooth grey plastic engine cowlings, blue lithographed windows, silver overall, red and blue American Airlines colors, "Electra II" on tail and fuselage.
Multi-Action Electra Jet, 16" WS, blue (not clear) plastic flight deck and cabin windows, silver overall, red and blue American Airlines colors, "Electra II" on tail and fuselage.
Multi-Action Electra Jet, 16" WS, ribbed red plastic engine cowlings, clear plastic flight deck and cabin windows, silver overall, red and blue American Airlines colors, "Electra II" on tail and fuselage.
-Rosko brand, sold boxed with one-dimensional cardboard cut-outs of figures, vehicles, ground support equipment.
Multi-Action Electra Jet, 16" WS, ribbed grey plastic engine cowlings, clear plastic flight deck and cabin windows, silver/white with dark blue and aqua cheat lines, red italicized "KLM Royal Dutch Airlines" titles, fine diagonal tail fin stripes, PH-DSF in red on port wing, 1965.
Multi-Action Electra Jet, 16" WS, ribbed grey plastic engine cowlings, clear plastic flight deck and cabin windows, silver/white with dark blue and aqua cheat lines, dark blue "KLM Royal Dutch Airlines" titles, broad horizontal tail fin stripes, PH-DSF in red on starboard wing.
Lockheed 188 Electra, 16" WS, friction, smooth grey plastic nacelles, silver/white/pale blue with red and blue Japan Air Lines markings with many small cabin windows and red Tsuru crane logo on tail, "Tone" on nose, box with Japanese characters. ST “safety toy” symbol on box indicates 1970s.

Lockheed Super Constellation, 12" WS, friction, metal 3-bladed props, oversized nose wheel, silver overall, blue/red markings, black Fly-Eastern Air Lines titles, red falcon symbol on fuselage and tail, yellow windows, also with Hadson trademark.
Lockheed Super Constellation, 12" WS, friction, metal 3-bladed props, oversized nose wheel, silver/white, red and blue Pan American World Airways markings.
Lockheed Super Constellation, 12" WS, battery, two metal 3-bladed props and two red plastic jet pods under wings, oversized nose wheel, silver/white, red and blue Pan American World Airways titles, N35021.
NAMC YS-11, 18" WS, battery, scale model, plastic lower parts, red plastic engine cowlings, white 4-bladed plastic props, silver/white with blue cheat line and blue upper fuselage stripe, blue tail with DaVinci helicopter logo in circle, All-Nippon Airways markings, JA8729.
NAMC YS-11, 18" WS, battery, scale model, plastic lower parts, red plastic engine cowlings, white 4-bladed plastic props, silver/white with red TWA markings, golden globe symbol on tail and wings.
Vickers Viscount, 18 1/2" WS, battery remote control, wing lights:
Capital Airlines, metal 4-bladed props with rounded tips, ten lighted translucent cabin windows with passenger silhouettes on each side, forward and aft wheel struts, silvery-blue with off-white crown, red markings with stylized cardinal logo, "Viscount" on tail fin, "Capital N86532" on wings.
Pan American, metal 4-bladed props with rounded tips, silver/white with dark blue 1950s colors, lithographed passengers in windows, "DOUGLUS" on fin, "Seven Seas" on nose, N1957C.
Pan American, transparent plastic engine cowlings, plastic 4-bladed props, silver/white with medium blue 1960s colors, "DC7C" on tail fin, N900PA on wing.
United Air Lines, metal or plastic props, ten lighted translucent cabin windows with passenger silhouettes on each side, silver/off-white with dark blue and red 1950s colors, "DC-7 Mainliner" titles, N31225, 1958.

NIKKŌ GANGU KŌGYŌ and NOMURA Jet Liners
The Boeing Strato Jet was an early battery model from 1957. It is lithographed to look like a bomber and it is unusual in two ways: it has lighted red and green jet pods, and it runs continuously on the floor instead of stopping and starting. Later N-G-K and T.N jetliners were made with lithographed tin upper parts with molded plastic lower parts. Their transparent red jet pods were mounted on white plastic pylons, and they contained blinking midget Christmas lights. The Boeing 707s and 747s with the 13" wingspans share similar tooling, the 747s having been modified to incorporate the famous raised forward fuselage. The latter were widely exported, and were made in various airline colors.

The Douglas DC-9 is an accurate scale model that incorporates an amusing "opening door with setting ladder." As the cabin door opens, a red plastic staircase emerges from the plane and the tin flap with the waving stewardess moves into place. The DC-9's front wheels pull the plane along, eliminating the ungainly motor housing below the wings.

The Lockheed Starlifter military air cargo plane was made using the same tooling as the blue Marx version, but the N-G-K / T.N toy has an opening nose with a small green plastic Jeep inside. A similar feature appears on at least one 747 cargo jet toy.

Airliners, Jet:

Airbus A300, 16 1/2" WS, friction, red/white plastic jet pods, silver/white with dark blue/red/yellow TDA (Toa Domestic Airlines) markings, Japanese characters on fuselage, JA8501.

Boeing 707
Boeing Strato Jet (based on Model 367-80 "Dash Eighty," 707 prototype - the real Strato Jet was a B-47 bomber), 13" WS, USAF markings:
-Battery, with or without remote control, lighted red/green plastic jet pods, blue, 9230, 1957.
-Friction, metal jet pods, pale blue and white with red markings.
13" WS, silver overall, red and black American Airlines markings, "Astrojet" on tail fin, 1967.
13" WS, silver/white, red and blue Japan Air Lines 1970s colors, DC-8 JA8009.
13 WS, silver/white, medium and dark blue KLM-Royal Dutch Airlines with horizontal tail fin stripes, Douglas DC-8 PH-DCN.
13" WS, silver/white, blue and yellow "late 1960s" Lufthansa markings with lower-case letters, D-ABOT, with or without remote control.
13" WS, silver/white, medium blue Pan American markings.
13" WS, silver/white, medium blue SAS markings with red details, abbreviated "SCANDINAVIAN" titles, "DC-8" on tail fin, "Harald Viking."
13" WS, silver/white, red Swissair markings, DC-8, 1969 catalogue.
13" WS, silver/white, red TWA markings.
14 1/2" WS, silver/white, medium blue Air France 1960s colors, "Boeing 707 Intercontinental" in red on tail fin, F-BHSB, same tooling as Marx TWA Super Jet.
14 1/2" WS, silver overall, red and dark blue American Airlines markings with round symbol on tail fin, same tooling as Marx TWA Super Jet.
14 1/2" WS, battery, red/white lighted jet pods, plastic underparts, silver/white, blue and yellow Lufthansa markings, same tooling as Marx TWA Super Jet.
14 1/2" WS, battery remote control, opening fuselage door, red/white lighted jet pods, plastic underparts, silver/white, blue and yellow Lufthansa markings D-ABDS, same tooling as Marx Pan Am cargo jet.
14" WS, 1970s 747 tooling including engines, American Airlines, 1960s silver/red lightning bolt scheme with AA logo in roundel on tail fin.
18" WS, battery, clear plastic nose panel, lighted white/red plastic jet pods, speaker on upper rear fuselage, silver/white with blue Pan American markings, "Jet Clipper America" titles, N707PA, also made for Line Mar Toys and later made in China #ME-087.

Boeing 727, 12 1/2" WS, battery, white/red plastic lighted jet pods, grey tail engine and horizontal stabilizers.
-American Airlines, silver with dark blue and red markings, "AA" in circle on tail fin, 1969 catalogue.
-Japan Air Lines, silver/white, blue/red markings with registration JA8027, Tone.
-Lufthansa, silver/white, blue markings with registration D-ABIN, 1975.
-Pan American, silver/white, light blue markings.
Boeing 727, same as Louis Marx Co. Jet of the Soaring 60s, 13 1/2" WS, battery, red and white plastic jet engines, nose wheels pull plane along, plastic underparts, in the following color schemes:
-Japan Air Lines, silver/white, blue/red markings with registration JA8027, Tone.
Boeing 737, 13" WS, battery, large red plastic jet pods, plastic lower parts, in the following color schemes:
Canadian Pacific-CP Air, orange/green, CF-CUM.
United, silver/white with medium blue and red 1960s colors with broken blue and red stripe up tail fin.
United, silver/white with orange/red/blue 1970s colors with red/blue stylized "U" on tail fin.

Boeing 747
13" WS, silver/white with red Boeing house colors, prototype markings.
13" WS, silver/white with red Air Canada colors, in bi-lingual box marked Montrose Toys.
13" WS, silver overall, blue/red American Airlines scheme introduced 1970, with broad blue/white/red cheat lines, "American" in red lettering on fuselage, and blue and red "AA" with "scissors" eagle on tail fin.
13" WS, silver/orange, Canadian Pacific CP Air C-FCRA.
13" WS, opening blue plastic nose with yellow plastic car inside, silver overall, red and blue Flying Tiger Line colors, blue tail fin with "Tigers" title and "T" logo in circle, wings with "T" logo in circle and "B747F."
13" WS, silver/white, medium blue Pan American colors.
13" WS, silver/white, QANTAS Australia livery with orange cheat line, winged kangaroo in white on red tail fin (Queensland And Northern Territory Air Service).
14" WS, #13136, silver/white, dark blue and aqua KLM Royal Dutch Airlines colors, PH-BAC, same wings: Alps, Mesem DC-10; Mesem, Vohratoys 737.
14" WS, #13136, silver/white, medium blue Pan American colors, same wings: Alps, Mesem DC-10; Mesem, Vohratoys 737.
17 3/4" WS, round wing lights, most realistically-shaped of these 747s, molded flap track fairings on wings, silver/white with red TWA colors, golden globes logos.

Boeing SST 2707, 9" L, battery with manual “sweeping wing action” (variable geometry), plastic bottom, 4 transparent red plastic jet exhausts behind wings, small triangular blue tail fin with Pan American globe logo outlined in white, silver/white with medium blue cheat line and black "Pan American" “Boeing SST 2707” markings, “Supersonic USA” in small red letters on aft fuselage.
Boeing SST 2707, 18" L, battery, later version with delta wings, plastic bottom, takeoff action with sliding tail wheel, 4 transparent red plastic jet exhausts behind wings, blue plastic droop snoot, silver/white with medium blue / black "Pan Am" markings.
Boeing SST 2707, 18" L, battery, later version with delta wings, plastic bottom, takeoff action with sliding tail wheel, 4 transparent red plastic jet exhausts behind wings, red plastic droop snoot, silver/white with red / yellow TWA markings.
Boeing SST 2707, 18" L, battery, later version with delta wings, blue plastic nose, Lufthansa 70s colors, D-AFUT.
Boeing SST 2707-300, battery, silver/white with blue Pan American markings.
Convair 880, 16" L, 14" WS, battery, transparent red plastic lighted jet pods with white intakes and exhausts, plastic underparts, super-critical wing shape, Japan Air Lines 60s colors, JA8021, 880 on tail fin tip in red, "Sakura."
Douglas DC-8, 24" WS, friction, plastic lower parts, wide fuselage, red/white plastic jet pods, 1960s multi-stripe Japan Air Lines livery, JA8001.
Douglas DC-8, 24" WS, friction, plastic lower parts, wide fuselage, red/white plastic jet pods, silver/white with red/blue Cubana de Aviacion S.A. “Cubana” 1970s livery, CU-464 on wing in blue.

Douglas DC-9, 16" WS, battery, opening door and plastic ladder with stewardess, red/white plastic jet pods, ca.1966-73.
Off-white, dark blue cheatlines with red trim, accurate "Douglas DC-9" prototype colors, blue plastic horizontal tail, 1966.
Alitalia, silver/white with green and red markings, forward fuselage hump like 747, 1977 (Suspected).
KLM, silver/white with dark blue and aqua colors.
Libyan Arab Airlines, silver/white with gold cheat line and tail fin, circle symbol with three bent arrows, Libyan Arab Airlines titles in Latin and Arabic alphabets, green Libyan flag.
Swissair, silver/white with red colors, white cross on red tail fin.
TWA, silver/white with red colors, golden globes symbols, also made in Taiwan (Metro brand is suspected), 1970s.

Douglas DC-10, battery, red/white plastic jet pods, white plastic opening cabin door, silver overall, American Airlines scheme introduced 1970, with broad blue/white/red cheat lines, "American" in red lettering on fuselage, and blue and red "AA" with "scissors" eagle on tail fin.
Douglas DC-10, 14" WS, 17" L, battery, red/white plastic jet pods, silver/white, TWA, red markings, golden globes. (TWA operated the similar-looking Lockheed 1011 but not the DC-10).
Lockheed C-141 Starlifter/C-5A Galaxy, 14 1/2" WS, battery, red/white plastic jet pods, opening white plastic nose with green plastic Jeep inside, grey/white, USAF-MAC Military Airlift Command markings, see also Marx.
Lockheed 1011 TriStar, 16 1/2" WS, battery with large round red and green wing lights, scale model, white/red plastic underwing engines, white plastic tail fin, silver/white with red cheat line, TWA golden globes livery, "TWA" inside two golden globes paper label on tail fin, "TriStar" on center engine intake.
Lockheed 1011 TriStar, 16 1/2" WS, friction, scale model, white/red plastic underwing engines, white plastic tail fin, two-tone blue 1980s All-Nippon Airways colors, JA8501.
SE210 Caravelle, 17" L, battery with powered nose wheel like DC-9 and VC-10, silver/white with dark blue and red SAS-Scandinavian Airlines System markings, 1964 catalogue.
Vickers VC-10, 14” WS, 15” L, battery, large motor box below fuselage, plastic underparts and triangular tail fin leading edge, stepped nose, silver/white with dark blue BOAC markings, trimmed in gold, G-ARTA on blue tail (prototype registration).

Airliners, Jet, T.N Hong Kong, 1970s-80s:
13" WS, battery, plastic lower parts including motor housing, red plastic jet intakes, oval red and green wing lights.

Airbus A-300/A-310: Lufthansa 1984, Swissair 1980.
Boeing 707 VC-137: United States of America Presidential transport.
Boeing 747: Air Canada 1979, Delta, Pan American, QANTAS.
Douglas DC-10: Lufthansa 1984, Swissair 70s colors, Swissair 80s colors, United "Friend Ship" early 70s colors (Sears box).

NIKKŌ GANGU and NOMURA Military Aircraft

Nikko Gangu and Nomura firms produced some notable military aircraft. The all-grey "Sky Ace" a/k/a "Sky Guard," a very early battery toy airplane, appeared in the 1954 Sears Roebuck Christmas catalogue. The experimental prop-jet Republic XF-84F "Thunderscreech" (FS-059) appeared in a number of color variants. Finally, Nikko Gangu appears to have been the only toy manufacturer that reproduced the Gloster Meteor in tin plate, and it is a fine scale model. The Meteor was a very early British jet fighter from the 1940s with two jet engines mounted on short, straight wings.

Bombers:

Boeing B-50 Superfortress, 14 1/2" WS, friction, metal 4-bladed props with rounded tips, turquoise/silver/red with dark blue markings, BK-270 on body, F18096 on fin; the toy B-50 and Stratocruiser share the same wings/motors/props/tail surfaces, just like the real planes.

Fighters:

Biplane 7F18, 14" WS, battery, red, 1930s markings.
Grumman F3F Biplane, 12" WS, battery, silver, yellow upper wing.
Grumman F3F Biplane, 12" WS, battery remote control, blue with red upper wing, red cowling and control surfaces, 1930s US insignia, yellow/red “F3F” on fuselage.
Grumman F3F Biplane, 12" WS, battery, bright yellow/green camouflage.
Mitsubishi Zero, 14" WS, friction, plastic canopy, 8-153.
Mitsubishi Zero, 14" WS, friction, plastic canopy, V-100.
Republic XF-84H Thunderscreech, 12” WS, battery, T tail, metal pilot figurines and metal canopy, swept wings, wingtip fuel tanks, in the following color schemes:
Lited (sic.) Piston Action Plane, prop and plastic lighted engine with moving pistons inside, silver, FS-059.
3-bladed prop, wingtip tanks, no canopy, white with red lightning bolts and blue/white Greek insignia, FS-059 (Marchand p. 162).
Lighted Jet Plane, no prop, two machine guns with light on forward fuselage, flat plastic red nose, off-white, blue and red details, FW-988, same tooling as Piston Action Plane.
Lighted Jet Plane, no prop, two machine guns with light on forward fuselage, plastic red nose cone, off-white, red details, FW-996, same tooling as Piston Action Plane.
Single-prop Fighter "A-51," 6 3/4" WS, wind-up, hangs from ceiling, large prop at rear, plastic child's head as pilot, red and blue with yellow eagle on body.
Single-prop Fighter "F-84," 7 1/2" WS, wind-up, 4-bladed metal prop, sparking machine gun, large underwing fuel tanks, tapering streamlined fuselage, dark blue and red with pale blue markings, red bird on fuselage.
Single-prop Fighter, 7 1/2" WS, friction, machine guns on wings, chrome cowling, painted dark blue, also with Bandai trademark, in light blue.
Single-prop Fighter, 9" WS, battery, "Phoenix," sound and blinking light.
Sky Ace/Sky Guard, 11 1/2" WS, early battery-operated model (1954), hangs from ceiling, with or without landing gear, two-bladed prop, plastic canopy, straight wings, large dorsal fin, silver overall, USAF insignia, Showa trademark.
Twin-prop Fighter (Tigershark?), 7 1/2" WS, metal 4-bladed props, orange-red and dark blue with rivet detail, 502 on nose, USAF markings.

Fighters, Jet:

Cessna jet trainer #136, 6" wingspan, friction, straight wings, green overall, cream markings, wing tip tanks painted white, red plastic "windows" inside USAF insignia, light grey canopy.
Convair XF-92, friction, delta wings and tail, silver with red trim.
Douglas D-558 Sky Rocket, 10" L, friction, white, black rubber nose, clear canopy opens with ejecting pilot.
General Dynamics F-111A, battery, variable wings, see also Metro and Lyra.
Gloster Meteor, 11 1/2" WS, friction, tin jet engine nacelles, tin nose wheel on long strut, silver with light blue rectangles and bands, red and yellow markings, stylized Plains Indian head with feathers on fuselage, RAF insignia, “EF 48” in dark blue, notable model of early British jet fighter.
Grumman F11F Tiger, 11" L, 6" WS, friction, yellow with red and dark blue details, US Navy 370.
-Red overall, USAF, C-02 on tail fin.
Grumman F-14 Tomcat, battery, variable wings, Navy 303NL, "NE" on twin tail fins circa 1977, see also Son Ai Toys.
Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, 11" L, 8" WS, friction, white, light blue rear fuselage, red markings, 7214 in blue on yellow tail stripe, F-104 in black on forward fuselage, USAF markings, Nomura-sold by Rosko.
Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, 14" L, friction, wingtip tanks, large white plastic needle nose, moving red plastic engine exhaust, no canopy, off-white with red markings, M-207 on tail fin.
Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, 14" L, friction, wingtip tanks, large white plastic needle nose, moving red plastic engine exhaust, no canopy, silver with red markings, M-207 on tail fin.
McDonnell F3H-2 Demon, friction, "NP" on tail.
McDonnell F3H-2 Demon, 8 1/2" WS, battery, silver, "NP" on tail, lights on trailing edges of wings.
McDonnell F-4 Phantom, 13 3/4" L, battery, fuselage halves joined by conspicuous ridge, blue and silver with red markings, US Air Force titles with shield on tail fin.
Mystery plane, battery, large figure of pilot in open cockpit, swept wings, X-27.
Mystery action plane, 11" WS, battery, mildly swept wings, pilot in open cockpit, XF-160.
North American F-86 Sabre, 7" WS, wind-up, no undercarriage, hangs from ceiling, large plastic propeller at tail, lithographed pilot and diagonal fuselage bands, aqua marine/red, yellow stripe on tail fin, white USAF / FU-23 markings.
Republic F-105 Thunderchief, Almighty Jet Fighter, 19" L, battery, opening canopy, white with red markings, USAF, 1964 catalogue.
Straight-wing jet, 13” L, friction with sparks, short wings with fuel tanks, red needle nose, dark blue/white with red markings, USAF JET 38710, 370 on nose.
Swept-wing jet fighter, 7" WS, friction.
Swept-wing fighter, 11” L, friction, short wings, needle nose in the following color schemes:
Dark blue/yellow/red, Navy #370.
International orange-red, US Air Force C-02.

Helicopters:

Bell 47, friction, small.
Bell Highway Patrol, 13" L, battery, 2-bladed plastic main rotor, lighted clear plastic engine compartment, two pilots lithographed in front windows, plastic skis, white/dark blue, Police 201.

Bell Highway Patrol, 14" L, battery, 2-bladed plastic main rotor, lighted clear plastic engine compartment, two red roof lights, plastic skis, raised-relief helmeted pilot figurines or lithographed pilots on flat surface, in the following colors:
Army, green with yellow tail boom band, red tail stripe.
Police markings, white/dark blue.
White, red cross, "Rettungsdienst" titles.
Yellow, red cross, ADAC.

Bristol 171, friction, 3-bladed metal main rotor, white/dark blue, Pan American “Clipper Fortuna” (courtesy Mark Driver)
Hiller Hornet, friction, two-bladed rotor with jet pods, green.
Piasecki Flying Horse, 14 1/2" L, friction, two metal rotors, silver with blue details, USAF.
Piasecki HUP-2, 10 1/2" L, friction, two 3-bladed metal rotors, silver, "US Air Force" along body, "UR" "NAVY" on rear fuselage.
Sikorsky S-55, 11" L, friction, 3-bladed metal main rotor, visible engine with moving pistons under plastic cover, clear cockpit, silvery-blue, USAF 1517.
Sikorsky S-58, 11" L, friction, Air Port Airway, two tin pilots and moving pistons under plastic canopy, pale yellow/orange-yellow with red and black details, 5 rectangular blue windows.
Sikorsky S-58, 11" L, friction, two cannons on side, Patrol Helicopter #P-316.
VT-107, 23" L, battery, two 3-bladed plastic rotors, white/silver/red "Mercury 107."

Light Aircraft:

Beechcraft "Skyline," 13" WS, battery, 2-bladed plastic prop, 1970s, in the following color schemes:
White/red/black N1607N.
Orange-yellow wings and underparts.
Yellow/red, pilot's wings lithographed on wing, N38031.
Blue All-Nippon Airways markings.
Blue/red with comic characters on wings.

Cessna, 9 1/2" WS, friction, 3-bladed plastic prop, low wing, visible engine with moving pistons under plastic cover, pilot lithographed in cabin, silver overall, red cheat lines and dark blue leading edges, N-3018.
Cessna 310, 10" WS, battery, 2-bladed metal props, port fuselage lever, red/white, grey wings, lithographed passengers, N2157.
Cessna 310, 25" WS, friction, plastic underparts, 3-bladed plastic props, N6717X, passengers lithographed in windows, wingtip fuel tanks, red/white.
Piper Cherokee, 13" WS, friction, plastic canopy, beige/red JA3567, same as or similar to Beech 33.
Republic "SeaBee" Amphibian, red plastic 3-bladed pusher prop, silver upper fuselage, red/white with "Clipper N2235" on wings.

[grwebster]

Great job Tone, Here is the Rico Dc-4?

[Tone]

Yes indeed, a beautiful plane. They do not often show up at the shows here.

Everybody, please add more photos if you have them !

[grwebster]

Tone, here are some more Rico tin toys
I found it strange that they did a Hurricane {prewar?} as it didn't serve with their air force. Another Spanish make did a very similar toy and I have seen it chromed {and a different size}.
Tthe DH Racer is another oddity as it didn't fly in spain at all. Several variants were made of it with differences in landing gear and finish, I believe mine is prewar but don't know for sure.