Lou, are you sure of your time line on the kit release? Jim Silhavy had a (the?) prototype Magician at the '60 Dallas Nats. George Aldrich flew it. I don't recall anything about it except that it was white. So I don't think the kit came out as early as the the 50's, but I don't know. Have to look up some old ads, I suppose. Certainly Classic legal in any case.