Model plane
Category
Models
Date
1937
Materials
wood and metal
Measurements
30 x 165 x 114 mm
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 1655827.36
Summary
A Percival Vega Gull, an assembled and handpainted 'Skybird' model aircraft. Kit number 15A, 1937. Fuselage and wheel-spats painted blue, wings tail and cockpit silver, propellers black. Bears registration G-A MRK on undersurface of wing, and right hand fuselage. G-MRK on left hand fuselage. Number 36 of a large collection of one hundred and thirty four painted wood and early plastic 'Skybird' aircraft models and others, mostly 1930s to 1940s.
Provenance
Accepted by HM Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the National Trust, 2013