Manufacturer: Airfix
Scale: 1/72
Additional parts: custom amde decals
Model build: Oct - Nov 2018
Air Aaran Britten-Norman BE-2 islander
Airfix
1/72
1/72
Air Aaran Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander
In 2014, we spend our summer vacation in Ireland. There, we made a day trip to the Aran islands, it takes you about one hour by boat or 7 minutes by plane. So we took the plane, a BN Islander.
The Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander is a successful British light aircraft designed in the 1960s and still in production today. It's one of the best-selling commercial airplanes in Europe, used for both civilian and military purposes. After being manufactured abroad for over 50 years, production of the Islander returned to the UK in 2023.
I rebuild the one (correct registration etc.) that we used for this flight. The model is a 1/72 scale old Airfix kit. As it is a bit too tail heavy (not enough weight in the nose), I had to add a little helper in the back of the plane.
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