Vintage Classic – Bristol Superfreighter

The 1:72 scale Bristol Superfreighter makes a return to the Airfix range since 2005!

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Featuring an opening nose with included vehicle ramps, the Bristol Superfreighter is back in operating business within the Vintage Classics range. With the tooling born in 1959, the Bristol Superfreighter saw seven releases of the kit, making this the eighth ever run. As usual, the captivating pack artwork of this civil aircraft was created by Airfix artist, Roy Cross, back in 1967, which depicts the four-wheeled cargo loading into the cargo bay, a rewind in time for those that remember this sight. Featuring the British United Air Ferries scheme, the kit contains a total of 107 parts, once built, the kit measures an overall length of 312mm and a wingspan of 457mm.

The Bristol Superfreighter was designed in 1952 as a development of the Bristol Freighter to meet the requirements of the car ferry services, carrying cars and their passengers across the English Channel. By 1954 there were Silver City Airways services between Southampton-Cherbourg and Lympne-Ostend. In 1963 Silver City was amalgamated with other operators to form British United Air Ferries still using the Superfreighter. Cross Channel car ferry services came to end in the late 1960s when cheaper sea ferry services became more popular.