Carbon Fiber Warbird Copy Ready for Purchase

Many classic aircraft lie sadly out of reach for the average pilot. With production lines shut down a half-century prior, the few surviving warbirds in the world find their value increasing with each passing year.

They’re the subject of fantasy for daydreaming pilots, accustomed to dog-earing the classifieds and hoping that “call for price” is secret code for “Less than a house”. Scalewings Aircraft has the perfect remedy. A P-51 Mustang replica, at 70% scale of the original, with ultra lightweight carbon fiber manufacture and economical, reliable operation. 

Now shipping their quick build kit they call the SW-51 Mustang, Scalewings says their version of the legendary fighter is the most accurate on the market. In standard trim, the kit has a MTOW of 1,654 pounds, owing to its all-carbon construction, control elements, seats, and electrically actuated landing gear. When designing their kit, scalewings took painstaking efforts to replicate the seams, the rivets, and the screws inherent to a metal aircraft fuselage. Those lines and textures come to life even in a composite body, taken to the next level with appropriate attention to paint detail. The result is a close approximation of the original plane, with all the modern amenities of a new production aircraft. 

The standard kit includes the wings, fuselage, stabilizer, control surfaces and systems, landing gear, both seats and their coverings, and fuel tank system. Optional additions include a firewall forward kit, which includes a new Rotax 915iS and MT-4-blade propeller. Avionics are available from Dynon or Garmin, suited to pilot preference. 

The Launch Edition kits are priced at a starting point of roughly $138,000, or €119,000.

FMI: www.scalewings.com