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Old 12-31-2012 | 03:08 PM
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Default RE: Hobbyking 50cc Spitfire


ORIGINAL: pacoflyer

Kahloq,
Thanks for your reply

The Yellow T-6 has been on my bucket list for years. I've also flown one and loved it.
The Petrausch T-6 from Vogelsang in North Carolina is also a nice kit, but just too big.
I don't know much about the American Eagle kit but it looks OK
I have spoken with YT International several times and shipping the kit over here looks to be pretty expensive.
And, as I had posted here earlier......YT International unfortunately does not have a distributor stateside.

paul

What I meant by a distributor was someone carrying the SAME plane that YTinternational has, but here in the US. YT is not a manufacturer. They do not produce anything. They buy the planes in quantity from a vendor and them sell them to the public. So...its possible that a company here stateside could sell that same plane if they had a distribution agreement with whatever manufacturer actually makes them. This is the same case with ESM planes. In England, YT is the ESM distributor, but not here in the US. That is handle by troybuiltmodels and then VQwarbirds is a reseller

Highly unlikey though that there is a reseller here in the US for that particular 101" AT6 since its not the most popular plane especially in that size.
Here in the US...there are many KITS such as Zirolli and Byron

However, there are several somewhat smaller AT6's you could get. CMP has an 82" version. Topflite has a 69" version.

Seagull has a really nice one at 82" as well and its not expensive at all:
http://www.horizonhobby.com/products...arf-SEA3550#t2