SPA Modeler

this is the Hobbycraft kit, easy kit to build, only little bit filler and sanding, markings for silver or this navy test aircraft

Naval Air Test Center (NATC) Bu 63960
Patuxent River | 1947

Looking good!

Again a plane that one hardly knows anything about... Luckily we have Wikipedia! :-)

And always so special to see, any plane, with yellow wings!


- Kari

Very cool.

Well done, Peter. Yellow and blue is always a strong combo. This plane's also new to me.

Very nice, and not often seen as a subject! Great work.

Beautiful work! America’s first jet and almost completely unknown outside of early jet enthusiasts. It’s performance was outclassed by the hottest piston engine aircraft, but it was the shape of things to come.

Very nice! My sister took us to a friend of hers who’s husband was stationed at Pax River NAS. Although not my first time there. My uncle worked on that base for years until his retirement back in the early 2000 or late 1990s. It was then I fell in love with the P-3 Orions.

The last trip there we got to get aboard a Sea King Helicopter. I inquired her friend’s husband what are the chances of this taking us.... well up? Nope was his answer. Oh well, at least I tried.

Very nice. Paint scheme I've never seen before on this aircraft

tempestjohnny wrote:Very nice. Paint scheme I've never seen before on this aircraft

Much more attractive than the O.D. over Neutral Gray paint scheme that it flew in for flight test at Muroc (the old name of Edwards)

Beautiful!