Model airliner

Four model airliners in the common 1:16 or 1: 14.5 (Concorde) scale on the large-scale model flight day in Lehrte on August 19, 2006

Model airliners represent a special chapter in model flying.

Model airliners are mostly very detailed replicas of airliners, i.e. commercial aircraft used in manned aviation.

Due to the mostly complicated construction of the models, this branch of model flight is not very common.

With the further development of the model drives towards electric impellers and model turbines , it was possible from around the mid-1990s to achieve absolutely true-to-scale optics in the drive area and even authentic acoustics for the model airliners in the model turbines.

With the enormous performance of the model turbines, the model sizes grew more and more. Many model airliners have already exceeded the limit of 25 kg applicable in Germany for license-free aircraft , in some cases considerably; the impressive model of an Airbus A380 with a take-off weight of over 60 kg and four model turbines is just one example.

The cost of a model airliner can exceed € 20,000, and even kits can cost several thousand euros .