Piper Cherokee 235 (oz15858)

 

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Doh. Have removed the date of 1963 from this listing. That date does appear on the how-to-cover page, but of course that's an older page, from earlier. Can anyone give us a confirmed date for this one?
SteveWMD - 20/02/2025
Consider that the Piper Cherokee registration number N15754 was manufactured in 1972. This is the first (and unique?) Comet kit I see with vacuformed parts, probably this is one of the last kits before the Guillow acquiring of Comet company in 1998. I built FW 190 Super X serie in 1977. Probably this is the period.
Pit - 20/02/2025
The Cherokee 235 was certified in July 1963 and production started in 1964 lasting through the late 70's with some modifications as the design went along. The covering instructions are period correct even though the pictured airplane is a later production plane.
Douglas Babb - 20/02/2025
All the Super Stars range used vac-formed plastic parts, the Albatros is particulary bad it even has plastic wingtips that are hard to cut-out and never look right on the model, the dummy engine is also pretty dreadful, if you're going to build a Super Star model I would suggest that you throw out the plastic parts and replace them with balsa or blue foam parts.
simon rogers - 20/02/2025
Not all the Super Stars had plastic parts.
Fw 190, Zero, me 109, P-51d, Cub J-3 and Spitfire hadn't plastic parts, I made a FW190 and J-3 Cub, the latter with a 020 was a decent flyier.
Pit - 20/02/2025
Funny enough the Albatros was the first rubber powered scale model that I got any sort of flight out of, ok only a powered glide on Galleywood common nr Chelmsford Essex so I do have a bit of a soft spot for it. however I did find a kit recently on a well known auction site and bought it, basically it was worse than I remembered it, worse than stated earlier!! but... maybe I will have a go at it, for old times sake?
Mike Hollamby - 20/02/2025
I have this kit and there is no date on the box or plans (only on the generic covering instructions as already noted). Consequently, any date applied would have to come from an anecdotal source, such as a catalog or periodical listing it as a "new" kit.
DB - 20/02/2025
O.K. so not all the super star models have plastic parts but all the ones worth modelling [camel,albatros,triplane & se5a] have loads of ugly moulded parts that are best put in the bin.
simon rogers - 21/02/2025
Ok, will go with a tentative date of 1975 for now. Can always change this later.
SteveWMD - 21/02/2025
About the designer:
Dick Locher is the Chicago Tribune's Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist. An Air Force pilot from 1951 to 1953 and now a captain in the Air Force Reserve, he learned to fly in an old Mitchell B-25 bomber and later piloted B-47s, B-58s, and F-94s. Locher designed the world's first fly-powered airplane. He illustrates the world-famous comic strip Dick Tracy and he's drawn the box art for Mattel-Monogram model airplanes. Locher's paintings of airplanes hang in the Air Force Museum gallery in Colorado Springs.
Pit - 21/02/2025
Now that's a resumé.
Miguel - 22/02/2025
Curiously plans instruction for Cherokee, P-40 and Albatross show a German translation. I suspect that Comet made an agreement with a German importer to distribute these kits. Please note in (let's say) decal the rudder flags choice for many countries while the registration number is only for USA.
Pit - 23/02/2025
The small general arrangement drawings on the plan should not be used for documentation purposes, as U.S. civil registration marks were never applied to the bottom of both wing panels! For this vintage Cherokee (1970s era), they were only required to be on the fuselage sides.
D A - 23/02/2025
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