Hi Charlie,
Neat sounding kit, there. I have a ton of the 40's-60's era small scale model kits and I just build them for display. If I have an engine from the time period I mount that, even if it's just representative and not what the plans describe. I have flown like models and they are not much fun and always incur some scraping or worse damage as they are essentially scale racers and have to be whipped and towed for take off and landing and they glide at very high speed, resulting in very little time to make critical decisions, and inputs!
I have a 24" Scientific Staggerwing picture here I rebuilt from an eBay wreck and installed the McCoy 36 Sportsman it came with for my Dad who was a teen in the late forties. It's just to hang.
Chris...