The Little World

Or 2813 of 141 Sqn.

This aircraft is counted as an Airspeed Consul – the civilian version of an armed Oxford. It was acquired in 1951 and flown by the 141 Sqn.

The type was used as a VIP aircraft, multi-engine training, navigation and radio training, and as a light transport.

It lasted only until 1954, crashing in Kfir Sirkin – a little north-east of the present position of David Ben-Gurion Airport.

The model has come out better than first glance in the box may have suggested. There are errors, of course, and a couple of compromises that would draw howls from purists.

I will place it in Schmattarim Air Museum with pride. An unlikely addition from an unlikely source, but that is the nature of scale modelling – you win some occasionally.