antic,

Your airplane is a Luscombe Silvaire kitted in the 90's by JMD Models. The kit is out of production, but the company survives. You can go to their web site, but they now concentrate on helicopter bodies and related stuff.

I bought the kit at the Toledo show, where JMD had a booth, in about 1995 or so. I bought a Saito 60 twin at the same time. Both are still in the box. I recently retired from my engineering career, and have been building full time. I expect to get on the Luscombe toward the end of this year.

JMD brought out a small electric version of this kit in the early 2000's. There was a companion Cessna 195 kit. Both were pretty nice from what I could see. None of these kits are available now.

The owner of JMD models told me he owns a real Luscombe Silvaire, and designed the kits around measurements from his own airplane. It should be good fidelity to scale!

I sent the thin ABS cowl and wheel pants to one of the (now defunct) fiberglass manufacturers who sent me back a set of cowl and pants in fiberglass at no charge for the use of the plastic parts to make the parts. If your plane has glass cowl and pants, they probably came off the same tooling made with my set of plastic parts. Sweet deal!! You may be able to tell - my glass cowl and pants are the deep blue fiberglass that was around a few years ago.

Glad to know the plane flies well.

What is your plane powered with???

Regards,

Randy Little