RE: History of the Buccaneer???
You need to go to the SAMTalk web site at Yahoo groups for answers regarding the Bucaneer.
The Super Bucaneer was about 90 inch wingspan. thre were several models of differing powerplants and wingspans too. Bill Effinger designed up the Buccaneer in the late 1930's to show off and market his line of parts available from Berkeley Heights New York. This is written up in some older edition of the KAPA quarterly newsletter.
Bill Northrop did an updated plan of the Super in his older R/C Modeler Magazine and a few sentences about Berkeley there too. But overall, there were quite a few versions of the airplane issued via plan well after the company was sold in 1960. I think several companies offered representations of the model during the 1970's but each with their own design features, like wingspan, powerplant, radio gear, etc. But, the Bucaneer (by Berkeley) was one of the few models to survive WW2 intact and was produced in the same looking box for many years afterwards.
There were a few others produced by Berkeley to survive WW2 also, but big hint here is to look at return address. Is it New York, Arkansas or Iowa?
Wm.