the next two were in Sy Merrall's collection, perhaps still are
This one is mine as are the rest
a CR-42 prewar
a Macci 202 prewar
and the extra large voodoo, postwar
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Tin Toy Plane Production List Project
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Re: Tin Toy Plane Production List Project
by grwebster » Sat Mar 26, 2011 8:15 am
Here are some INGAP italy prewar aircraft
the next two were in Sy Merrall's collection, perhaps still are
This one is mine as are the rest
a CR-42 prewar
a Macci 202 prewar
and the extra large voodoo, postwar
the next two were in Sy Merrall's collection, perhaps still are
This one is mine as are the rest
a CR-42 prewar
a Macci 202 prewar
and the extra large voodoo, postwar
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Re: Tin Toy Plane Production List Project
by grwebster » Sat Mar 26, 2011 8:25 am
Here are two more Rico, both I believe prewar but hard to know for sure.
Both are german aircraft, I suspect.
Both are german aircraft, I suspect.
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Re: Tin Toy Plane Production List Project
by grwebster » Mon Mar 28, 2011 5:02 pm
Tone, I posted my Tipp &co Tippco planes here. Some probably were posted before....
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N Brands, Part 3
by Tone » Sun Apr 03, 2011 7:12 pm
NIPON GORAKU SHOKAI-NGS trademark in diamond (CRAGSTAN)
During the 1960s, New York's Cragstan firm imported a series of stylized-looking Japanese tin toy airplanes, in two sizes, with many variants made from similar tooling. The toys have no trademarks on them, only "Made in Japan." The boxes always are printed with "It's Cragstan for Toys" and "NGS" in a diamond. NGS is likely a Japanese export agent. One product is particularly clever yet simple: a series of three different airplanes, connected by metal rods, that appear to be flying in formation. The most elaborate "NGS" toy is a large battery-operated President Jet with detailed interior, based on the famous Raymond Lœwy design for the "Air Force One" livery but with a red cheat line instead of blue. The jet liners may have either a "thick" or a "narrow" fuselage when viewed from the side, depending on whether or not a larger or smaller lower part was used. DSK Daishin (see) issued some similar airplanes, and Yanoman issued a Japan Air Lines DC-7 based on the large four-engined prop plane tooling.
Airliners:
Four-engined Prop Plane, 16" WS, friction, 4-bladed plastic props, in the following color schemes:
American Airlines, swept tail, nose wheel.
Pan American, tail wheel, silver/white, medium blue cheat line, N730PA.
USAF, upright tail, tail wheel, silver/blue rectangles, N 21765.
USAF, swept tail, tail wheel, silver/blue rectangles, N 21765.
Pseudo-Electra, 11" WS, friction, Electra wings with white 4-bladed plastic props, Caravelle/Comet/727 body, 707 tail, American Airlines N7501A, bright blue with red and silver markings.
Airliners, Jet:
Boeing 707, 11" WS, friction, tin jet pods, in the following color schemes:
Douglas DC-8, white with red/medium blue "house colors" similar to those on other toys.
Japan Air Lines - see under Asahi Toy.
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, blue/aqua markings, diagonal tail stripes, red titles, PH-DCJ.
TWA, silver/white, red 1950s colors.
United, silver/white, medium blue and red markings.
USAF, green.
USAF, silver-blue.
Boeing 707, 16" WS, battery, Pan American.
Boeing 707, VC-137 President Jet, 20" WS, battery, transparent red plastic lighted jet pods, visible interior, silver/white with red cheat line, United States of America titles, same tooling as Cragstan Giant Friction Jetliner/Northwest DC-8.
Boeing 727, 11" WS, friction, in the following color schemes:
American Airlines, silver-blue with red markings, AA in circle logo, “AAL” on wing, N751A.
Ansett Airlines of Australia, silver/white, red and black 1970s colors, red tail fin with stylized red A in white circle, "Ansett A2200S" on wings, "727 Fan Jet" on tail engines.
Eastern, red wings, silver/white fuselage, Fly-Eastern titles, dark blue cheat line, red falcon on tail, gold trim.
Eastern, silver/white, dark and light blue cheat line on fuselage and up tail.
Northwest Orient, silver/white, dark blue and white cheat lines, red tail, 1970s colors.
TWA, silver/white, red and blue markings with two golden globes, M2004S.
United, silver/white, medium blue and red colors, red titles, N7001U,also with lever action mounted on blue base with four wheels lithographed with clouds (as above).
Boeing 727 #1922-2, 16" WS, friction with wheeled base and lever that is decorated with clouds, silver-blue, red American Airlines markings with red roundel logo on tail fin, N0171, also by Yonezawa as battery toy with wing tip lights.
Boeing 727, 16" WS, friction, in the following color schemes:
BEA-British European Airways, red wings, silver/white fuselage, dark blue cheat line, "BEA" in red square on fuselage and tail fin.
Eastern, red wings, silver/white fuselage, Fly-Eastern titles, dark blue cheat line, red falcon on tail, gold trim.
Eastern, silver/white, two-tone blue cheat line on fuselage and up tail, N70058.
TWA, silver/white, medium blue trailing edges, red "Trans World Airlines" titles, two red horizontal stripes on tail fin, "TWA BO727" in red on wings.
United, silver/white, medium blue and red colors, red titles, N7001U, also with lever action mounted on blue base with four wheels lithographed with clouds (as above).
DeHavilland Comet 4, friction, 10" WS, friction, 707/727 fuselage, 707 tail fin, nose gear, silver/white with dark blue "BOAC Comet 4" markings trimmed in red.
Douglas DC-9, 16" WS, VC-10 tail, 2 jet engines, silver/white, red Air Canada colors, CF-TJG.
SE-210 Caravelle, 11" WS, friction, silver/white, medium blue and red United markings with red titles and blue only broken tail stripe, N05070.
SE-210 Caravelle, 11" WS, friction with wheeled base and lever that is decorated with clouds, silver/white, medium blue and red United markings with red titles and blue only broken tail stripe, N05070.
Fighters, Jet:
Jet Transport with 2 Fighter Escorts, # 1478-4, in formation, connected with metal rods. Boeing 707 (C-137) with 11" WS is flanked by two unpowered Grumman F11F Tigers. The friction 707 is silver with white and pale blue markings, dark blue narrow cheat lines and tail fin band, US Air Force Military Air Transport Service titles. One Tiger is red and white, the other is silvery-blue with red details, both with Navy markings. The Tigers were available separately, with friction motors.
Helicopters:
Bell 47, 6 1/2" L, friction, 3-bladed metal main rotor, clear plastic canopy, orange and dark blue, solid tail boom with black triangles for open area, yellow tin pilot in pressure suit, ARMY ORDNANCE insignia, small thin plastic two-bladed tail rotor.
Bell 47, 6 1/2" L, friction, 3-bladed metal main rotor, clear plastic canopy, yellow, Navy.
HUP-2 Cragstan Inter-State Helicopter, battery, two metal 3-bladed rotors, clear plastic canopy with tin pilot figurine, clear plastic upper fuselage with tin passengers and moving stewardess, white/red.
During the 1960s, New York's Cragstan firm imported a series of stylized-looking Japanese tin toy airplanes, in two sizes, with many variants made from similar tooling. The toys have no trademarks on them, only "Made in Japan." The boxes always are printed with "It's Cragstan for Toys" and "NGS" in a diamond. NGS is likely a Japanese export agent. One product is particularly clever yet simple: a series of three different airplanes, connected by metal rods, that appear to be flying in formation. The most elaborate "NGS" toy is a large battery-operated President Jet with detailed interior, based on the famous Raymond Lœwy design for the "Air Force One" livery but with a red cheat line instead of blue. The jet liners may have either a "thick" or a "narrow" fuselage when viewed from the side, depending on whether or not a larger or smaller lower part was used. DSK Daishin (see) issued some similar airplanes, and Yanoman issued a Japan Air Lines DC-7 based on the large four-engined prop plane tooling.
Airliners:
Four-engined Prop Plane, 16" WS, friction, 4-bladed plastic props, in the following color schemes:
American Airlines, swept tail, nose wheel.
Pan American, tail wheel, silver/white, medium blue cheat line, N730PA.
USAF, upright tail, tail wheel, silver/blue rectangles, N 21765.
USAF, swept tail, tail wheel, silver/blue rectangles, N 21765.
Pseudo-Electra, 11" WS, friction, Electra wings with white 4-bladed plastic props, Caravelle/Comet/727 body, 707 tail, American Airlines N7501A, bright blue with red and silver markings.
Airliners, Jet:
Boeing 707, 11" WS, friction, tin jet pods, in the following color schemes:
Douglas DC-8, white with red/medium blue "house colors" similar to those on other toys.
Japan Air Lines - see under Asahi Toy.
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, blue/aqua markings, diagonal tail stripes, red titles, PH-DCJ.
TWA, silver/white, red 1950s colors.
United, silver/white, medium blue and red markings.
USAF, green.
USAF, silver-blue.
Boeing 707, 16" WS, battery, Pan American.
Boeing 707, VC-137 President Jet, 20" WS, battery, transparent red plastic lighted jet pods, visible interior, silver/white with red cheat line, United States of America titles, same tooling as Cragstan Giant Friction Jetliner/Northwest DC-8.
Boeing 727, 11" WS, friction, in the following color schemes:
American Airlines, silver-blue with red markings, AA in circle logo, “AAL” on wing, N751A.
Ansett Airlines of Australia, silver/white, red and black 1970s colors, red tail fin with stylized red A in white circle, "Ansett A2200S" on wings, "727 Fan Jet" on tail engines.
Eastern, red wings, silver/white fuselage, Fly-Eastern titles, dark blue cheat line, red falcon on tail, gold trim.
Eastern, silver/white, dark and light blue cheat line on fuselage and up tail.
Northwest Orient, silver/white, dark blue and white cheat lines, red tail, 1970s colors.
TWA, silver/white, red and blue markings with two golden globes, M2004S.
United, silver/white, medium blue and red colors, red titles, N7001U,also with lever action mounted on blue base with four wheels lithographed with clouds (as above).
Boeing 727 #1922-2, 16" WS, friction with wheeled base and lever that is decorated with clouds, silver-blue, red American Airlines markings with red roundel logo on tail fin, N0171, also by Yonezawa as battery toy with wing tip lights.
Boeing 727, 16" WS, friction, in the following color schemes:
BEA-British European Airways, red wings, silver/white fuselage, dark blue cheat line, "BEA" in red square on fuselage and tail fin.
Eastern, red wings, silver/white fuselage, Fly-Eastern titles, dark blue cheat line, red falcon on tail, gold trim.
Eastern, silver/white, two-tone blue cheat line on fuselage and up tail, N70058.
TWA, silver/white, medium blue trailing edges, red "Trans World Airlines" titles, two red horizontal stripes on tail fin, "TWA BO727" in red on wings.
United, silver/white, medium blue and red colors, red titles, N7001U, also with lever action mounted on blue base with four wheels lithographed with clouds (as above).
DeHavilland Comet 4, friction, 10" WS, friction, 707/727 fuselage, 707 tail fin, nose gear, silver/white with dark blue "BOAC Comet 4" markings trimmed in red.
Douglas DC-9, 16" WS, VC-10 tail, 2 jet engines, silver/white, red Air Canada colors, CF-TJG.
SE-210 Caravelle, 11" WS, friction, silver/white, medium blue and red United markings with red titles and blue only broken tail stripe, N05070.
SE-210 Caravelle, 11" WS, friction with wheeled base and lever that is decorated with clouds, silver/white, medium blue and red United markings with red titles and blue only broken tail stripe, N05070.
Fighters, Jet:
Jet Transport with 2 Fighter Escorts, # 1478-4, in formation, connected with metal rods. Boeing 707 (C-137) with 11" WS is flanked by two unpowered Grumman F11F Tigers. The friction 707 is silver with white and pale blue markings, dark blue narrow cheat lines and tail fin band, US Air Force Military Air Transport Service titles. One Tiger is red and white, the other is silvery-blue with red details, both with Navy markings. The Tigers were available separately, with friction motors.
Helicopters:
Bell 47, 6 1/2" L, friction, 3-bladed metal main rotor, clear plastic canopy, orange and dark blue, solid tail boom with black triangles for open area, yellow tin pilot in pressure suit, ARMY ORDNANCE insignia, small thin plastic two-bladed tail rotor.
Bell 47, 6 1/2" L, friction, 3-bladed metal main rotor, clear plastic canopy, yellow, Navy.
HUP-2 Cragstan Inter-State Helicopter, battery, two metal 3-bladed rotors, clear plastic canopy with tin pilot figurine, clear plastic upper fuselage with tin passengers and moving stewardess, white/red.
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Re: Tin Toy Plane Production List Project joustra
by alas » Mon Apr 04, 2011 11:39 am
Never saw this one before.. Now (april 4 011) on ebay.it
A new one for your Joustra list, Tone?
A new one for your Joustra list, Tone?
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O, P, R Brands
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OHIO ART
Ohio Art, famous for its Etch-A-Sketch magnetic drawing board, has been in business since the early 1900s. The firm made a tin wind-up float plane with mildly-swept wings and a V tail. This toy had a long life span that lasted into the 1970s. The earliest examples came packaged in cardboard boxes, while later boxes had large cellophane windows.
Light Aircraft:
Float Plane, 10" WS, wind-up, 2-bladed metal prop, swept wings, two large pontoons:
Blue body, red and white striped wings, Coast Guard titles.
Red/white, blue circles with white stars on wings, Coast Guard titles, NX4010K.
Red/white/blue body and wings, yellow/lavender pontoons, lavender prop and tail, NX4010K.
Blue, blue/yellow wings, yellow tail, red circles with white stars on wings, Sea Patrol titles, NX4010K.
Red, white upper fuselage stripe with blue canopy, black/blue/yellow chequerboard pattern on wings, "8" on body near prop, "Hot Job" in late-60s-style "psychedelic" font, orange/black "eyeball" insignia on wings.
ONO
This brand issued the KA Toy single-prop fighter (see) in its own livery in the 1970s, with “ST” safety toy symbol on the box.
Fighter:
US Air Fighter, 8" WS, friction, plastic 3-bladed prop, chrome silver, red blaze and cheat line on fuselage, red/black chequer markings, blue control surfaces, Japanese insignia, “5” on tail fin in yellow.
PAYÁ
Payá manufactured tin wind-up toys, both before and after the Spanish Civil War / WWII, in a factory in Ibi near Alicante, Valencia in Spain's southeast coast. Another famous maker, Rico, was based in the same city. The distinctive trademark shows the Payá name in the shape of a vintage locomotive with smoking exhaust stack. Early toys included some single-prop airplanes and a constructor kit that could make a number of toy models, with 9" wing spans, three bars spray-painted on the wing tips, and crosses spray-painted on the tail fins using a stencil. These planes are fitted with single or double tail fins and one or three propellers, with the nose prop larger than the wing props. Payá post-war toy airplanes rarely appear for sale in USA, but beginning in 1985, Payá re-issued replicas of its 1930s toys as "adult collectibles." One of these is the Dornier Wal sea plane, "Plus Ultra."
Airliners, Jet:
Airbus A-300B, 12 1/2" WS, battery remote control or friction (8391), grey plastic lower parts, red plastic jet pods, silver/white, blue Air France markings including stylized wave crest on tail fin.
Airbus A-300B, 12 1/2" WS, battery remote control or friction, grey plastic lower parts, red plastic jet pods, silver/white, green Alitalia markings including stylized green/red “Λ” on tail fin.
Airbus A-300B, 12 1/2" WS, battery remote control (8790) or friction (8390), grey plastic lower parts, red plastic jet pods, silver/white, red cheat line, Iberia 1970s colors with yellow globe on tail fin.
Boeing 707/KC-135, 12" WS, grey plastic jet pods, blue/white/silver, "United States Air Forces."
Boeing 747, 6 1/2" WS, grey plastic lower parts, flat jet engines lithographed on wings, white with blue cheat lines, Air France titles, white speed bird on red circle on tail fin.
Helicopters:
12" L, 2-bladed plastic main rotor, silver/white with red and light blue markings "3-02."
12" L, 2-bladed plastic main rotor, silver/red "Police."
12" L, 2-bladed plastic main rotor, blue "Policia."
2-bladed plastic main rotor, white plastic body and skids, lithographed tin upper fuselage, blue/red/white/green/yellow with sponsor logos (Bosch, Cibie, Dunlop, Elf etc.), "Rallye Paris-Dakar Racing Control," P-124-ES.
Hughes 500, 13" L, 2-bladed plastic main rotor, all lithographed tin, black/white zebra stripes, "Safari" titles.
Hughes 500, 13" L, 3-bladed plastic main rotor, all lithographed tin, red/white, "Rescate Aereo."
Hughes 500, 13" L, battery, 3-bladed plastic main rotor with lights, plastic with tinplate upper cabin portion, canopy with pilot figurine, black plastic skids, yellow/ocher camouflage.
Hughes 500, 13" L, battery, 3-bladed plastic main rotor with lights, plastic with tinplate upper cabin portion, canopy with pilot figurine, black plastic skids, red, "Cruz Roja" "BW-6."
Light Aircraft:
Avioneta Piper Comanche, 10 1/2" WS, friction, plastic 2-bladed propeller, in the following color schemes:
"Caza," green plastic wings/lower fuselage assembly, lithographed tin upper fuselage, olive green/brown camouflage.
"Turismo," blue plastic wings/lower fuselage assembly, lithographed tin upper fuselage, yellow/red/blue, "UX-32."
White plastic wings/lower fuselage assembly, lithographed tin upper fuselage, white with red cross markings, "UX-35," "54-30-CN" titles in black, "Rescate Aereo 7022" labels on wings.
PAYVA
Around 1970 a Spanish firm called Payva, quite different from Payá but based in the same city, issued a set of six very small tin friction airplanes based on tooling used by the Japanese firm, S2 Toy (see). The planes came in a box with three hangars and a B-25 on the cover. Small tin friction Concordes with pinwheels visible through the upper wing surfaces were also produced in several color combinations.
PE PE
This Portuguese firm issued twin-engine airliners with three-bladed props and open windows. They are unpowered. The fuselage is molded plastic; the wings are tin. The main wheels under the wings are fitted with streamlined “pants” with molded rivet detail. The name “PEPE” is molded onto the tail fin. The toys are not based on an original prototype; rather, they are generic. However, the streamlined fuselage and tail surfaces resemble those of the HK airliners in shape. Span is 9” length is 8 ½”. Source: Jorge Bras, O Brinquedo Português. See also Armindo Moreira Lopes.
PICÓ
Another Spanish firm based in Ibi that made at least two very different-looking painted tin airplanes.
Light Aircraft:
Streamlined racer, 2-bladed metal prop, silver with red leading and trailing edges of wings, "Pico" on fuselage.
Single motor, 2-bladed metal prop, two additional small nacelles with no props on stubby wings, rectangular punched-out cabin windows, painted silver.
PIONEER INDUSTRIAL WORKS (PRIVATE) LTD CALCUTTA
This Indian firm produced a twin-engine airplane that is similar in size and appearance to early Bandai toys of the B-26 and B-50. The name of the factory is written on the box label along with ”Bomber Plane” “Automatic Mechanical Toys.”
Bomber:
Friction, raised flight deck at mid fuselage, two four-bladed metal props, punched out windows, horse in circle with gold wing logos on wings:
Blue, red nacelles, winged deer replaces horses on wings.
Pale green with red nacelles.
Red overall with green nacelles and props.
PLAY ME
Founded in 1969 in Beniparrell, Valencia, Spain, and best known for its die cast aircraft series, Play Me is known to have issued at least one tin friction airplane. This appears to be same as or similar to the Japanese-made Convair F-106 # 33 sold in US in header bags. The Play Me version was sold boxed.
Airliner, Jet:
#304, Convair F-106, 7 1/4" L, friction, blue, red details, US markings, "JET PLANE" in white on fuselage.
PLAYGO TOYS
Playgo Toys is a modern Chinese (Hong Kong) firm that made a plastic toy 747-400 with a tin plate upper fuselage and tail fin. The plane is fitted with red and green lights on its rather thick "winglets." A realistic 1990s-era British Airways color scheme indicates this toy predated the age of mandatory and prohibitive licensing fees.
PLAYWELL
Playwell manufactured tin and plastic battery airliners in Hong Kong in the 1980s. The DC-10 is a very nice model, similar to other Hong Kong DC-10s, but it does not have the opening cabin door, and the entire upper fuselage is tin whereas others may have plastic below the tail fin/engine assembly. In 1986 Playwell issued an all-plastic 747 in Lufthansa colors, made in China. It is fitted with a propeller that enables it to fly in a circle when suspended from a ceiling. The nose wheel/strut assembly acts as the on-off switch, quite the clever design.
Airliner, Jet:
Douglas DC-10, battery, plastic with tin upper fuselage only, silver/red wing engines with chrome intakes, grey tail fin with blue light, "DC-10" in black on wings,
-Alitalia, silver/white with green and red markings.
-KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, blue tail fin light, aqua upper fuselage.
-Lufthansa, red tail fin light, white upper fuselage, blue markings, blue crane in yellow circle on grey tail fin.
PRETUL AGATEX
Apparently Pretul was a Romanian factory. This plant produced an attractive Tu-104 passenger jet. The state-owned airline TAROM operated the 707, but neither the Tu-104 nor the similar but smaller –124. Pretul’s other aerospace toys included rocket ships.
Airliner:
Ilyushin/Iliouchine Il-12 or Il-14, friction, nose wheel, "NI 2196T-67 Agatex Pret Lei 39 Lot. IV.79." lithographed under forward fuselage, blue plastic 4-blade props, chrome cowlings, red markings on crown, white upper fuselage, blue cheat line, grey wings/stabilizers/lower fuselage, "Transporturile Aeriene Române" titles, narrow red/yellow/blue Romanian fin flash on tail fin with registration YR-AM.
Airliner, Jet:
Tupolev Tu-104 or -124 (Twin-jet) #17074-66, 17” WS, friction, nose wheel, pale grey, white upper fuselage, red cheat line, all lower case “tarom” titles YR-APC, Tupolev logo near nose, Romanian flag on tail fin.
PUKY
Made in Argentina
Airliner, Jet:
Aerospatiale-BAC Concorde, 12"L, friction, white, red and blue Air France 1980s-90s colors.
RTI
Possibly a brand from India, the RTI logo inside an oval appears on the starboard wingtip of an unusual supersonic transport lithographed in garish colors that seem to match those seen on Indian toy rocket ships.
Airliner, Jet:
Supersonic transport, 10" long, friction, "Spectro Rocket" on wings, intricate red/yellow/green/blue finish, lithographed pilots and passengers in windows.
RABBIT, see USAGIYA
REI
Brinquedos Rei (King toys) is a Brazilian firm located in the industrial development zone surrounding the inland river port, Manaus. Rei's trademark is a cartoon boy wearing a crown. This firm produced a nice tin and plastic battery toy of a DC-10 around 1980. The model is an original, good quality design. As the upper fuselage and wings are a single piece of tin, the wings do not detach from the body. The wide-bodied jet is finished in the accurate color scheme of the national air carrier VARIG, Viação Aereo Rio Grandense. It is smaller than a Nomura DC-10. A Boeing 727 in 1980 Mexicana colors, with gold cheat line, stylized lower-case titles, registration XA-TAC and a Mexican flag as part of its lithographed finish, was made in Mexico using similar tooling - allegedly by Industrias Plasticas SA (no trademark seen).
Airliner, Jet:
Douglas DC-10 Ref# G-8, 10" WS, battery, red light atop fuselage, tin one-piece upper body and wings, plastic lower parts (including wing engines) and tail fin, silver/white, blue lithographed VARIG Brasil colors with green/yellow/blue flag, Icaro winged woman in oval near flight deck, compass logo sticker on tail fin, PP-VRG on wings.
RICO
Spain's Rico manufactured high-quality wind-up toys, lithographed and decorated with stencilled, spray-painted details. Rico planes reflected the streamlined style of the 1930s typified by the elegant DH.88 Comet air racer. In addition to the twin-prop model of the real plane, Rico's DH.88 toys could also have a single or even three props. This plane was available in red, white, blue and green. Post-war Rico toys included a four-engined airliner resembling a Lockheed 188 Electra with four plastic discs to simulate the spinning propellers. The Chirri biplane is similar to the Nomura Grumman F3F Navy Fighter, whereas the real life Chirri was a Fiat model. In addition, Rico produced copies of Tomiyama's 24" long 1967 jet bomber design that it named La Sæta and La Sæta Negra (arrow and black arrow).
Airliners:
Four-engined Airliner, 13 1/2" WS, metal props, silver with red cheat line, round tail fin with red/yellow/red Spanish flag "fin flash" on rudder.
Four-engined Airliner, 13 1/2" WS, metal props, blue/white, round tail fin with red/yellow/red Spanish flag "fin flash" on rudder.
Four-engined Airliner, 13 1/2" WS, plastic prop discs, white with red cheat line, round tail fin with red/yellow/red Spanish flag "fin flash" on rudder.
Four-engined Airliner, 13 1/2" WS, plastic prop discs, green with white cheat line, round tail fin with red/yellow/red Spanish flag "fin flash" on rudder.
Twin-engined Airliner, 13 1/2" WS, plastic prop discs, "LAR" stencilled on wings.
Twin-engined Seaplane, 13 1/2" WS, two large pontoons, silver with red spray-painted markings.
Airliner, Jet:
DeHavilland Comet 4, 8 1/2" WS, friction, two external wheels for sparks, painted white, light blue or red painted wings, dark blue cheat lines, red square on white tail fin, BEA British European Airways, see also Yone-Ya.
Fighters:
Grumman F3F Biplano Chirri, 11 1/2" WS, battery, white 3-bladed plastic prop with red plastic cowling, silver, yellow upper wing, red tail, "VISTA, SUERTE Y AL TORO" motto in circle on tail fin with black cross on white rudder portion.
Single-engined Monoplane, 7 1/2" WS, two-bladed metal props, silver overall with painted red stripes and "Rico" in stencilled letters on wings.
Fighter, Jet:
Twin-engined Jet, plastic with tin upper wings, battery remote control, silver plastic jet pods under wings, molded blue plastic lower fuselage and tail, grey tin upper fuselage, blue tin plate upper wings with German crosses, lithographed pilots in canopy, LW-29.
Helicopters:
Red, same as GAMA 55 (see under Mangold).
Light Aircraft:
Piper Aztec, friction, clear plastic canopy, plastic 2-bladed props, white with red and dark blue jagged flame designs, R-28 on wings.
ROSKO
The "ROSKO TESTED" symbol of this US toy importer appears on boxes for some Japanese tin toys; the firm is not a manufacturer.
RUSS BERRIE
This American novelty gift distributor issued a small Chinese-made tin and plastic wind-up toy biplane in the 1990s named the Stunt Master. As the plane moves along the floor, it changes direction. It resembles the earlier Japanese Takatoku brand biplane and might be a re-issue.
Ohio Art, famous for its Etch-A-Sketch magnetic drawing board, has been in business since the early 1900s. The firm made a tin wind-up float plane with mildly-swept wings and a V tail. This toy had a long life span that lasted into the 1970s. The earliest examples came packaged in cardboard boxes, while later boxes had large cellophane windows.
Light Aircraft:
Float Plane, 10" WS, wind-up, 2-bladed metal prop, swept wings, two large pontoons:
Blue body, red and white striped wings, Coast Guard titles.
Red/white, blue circles with white stars on wings, Coast Guard titles, NX4010K.
Red/white/blue body and wings, yellow/lavender pontoons, lavender prop and tail, NX4010K.
Blue, blue/yellow wings, yellow tail, red circles with white stars on wings, Sea Patrol titles, NX4010K.
Red, white upper fuselage stripe with blue canopy, black/blue/yellow chequerboard pattern on wings, "8" on body near prop, "Hot Job" in late-60s-style "psychedelic" font, orange/black "eyeball" insignia on wings.
ONO
This brand issued the KA Toy single-prop fighter (see) in its own livery in the 1970s, with “ST” safety toy symbol on the box.
Fighter:
US Air Fighter, 8" WS, friction, plastic 3-bladed prop, chrome silver, red blaze and cheat line on fuselage, red/black chequer markings, blue control surfaces, Japanese insignia, “5” on tail fin in yellow.
PAYÁ
Payá manufactured tin wind-up toys, both before and after the Spanish Civil War / WWII, in a factory in Ibi near Alicante, Valencia in Spain's southeast coast. Another famous maker, Rico, was based in the same city. The distinctive trademark shows the Payá name in the shape of a vintage locomotive with smoking exhaust stack. Early toys included some single-prop airplanes and a constructor kit that could make a number of toy models, with 9" wing spans, three bars spray-painted on the wing tips, and crosses spray-painted on the tail fins using a stencil. These planes are fitted with single or double tail fins and one or three propellers, with the nose prop larger than the wing props. Payá post-war toy airplanes rarely appear for sale in USA, but beginning in 1985, Payá re-issued replicas of its 1930s toys as "adult collectibles." One of these is the Dornier Wal sea plane, "Plus Ultra."
Airliners, Jet:
Airbus A-300B, 12 1/2" WS, battery remote control or friction (8391), grey plastic lower parts, red plastic jet pods, silver/white, blue Air France markings including stylized wave crest on tail fin.
Airbus A-300B, 12 1/2" WS, battery remote control or friction, grey plastic lower parts, red plastic jet pods, silver/white, green Alitalia markings including stylized green/red “Λ” on tail fin.
Airbus A-300B, 12 1/2" WS, battery remote control (8790) or friction (8390), grey plastic lower parts, red plastic jet pods, silver/white, red cheat line, Iberia 1970s colors with yellow globe on tail fin.
Boeing 707/KC-135, 12" WS, grey plastic jet pods, blue/white/silver, "United States Air Forces."
Boeing 747, 6 1/2" WS, grey plastic lower parts, flat jet engines lithographed on wings, white with blue cheat lines, Air France titles, white speed bird on red circle on tail fin.
Helicopters:
12" L, 2-bladed plastic main rotor, silver/white with red and light blue markings "3-02."
12" L, 2-bladed plastic main rotor, silver/red "Police."
12" L, 2-bladed plastic main rotor, blue "Policia."
2-bladed plastic main rotor, white plastic body and skids, lithographed tin upper fuselage, blue/red/white/green/yellow with sponsor logos (Bosch, Cibie, Dunlop, Elf etc.), "Rallye Paris-Dakar Racing Control," P-124-ES.
Hughes 500, 13" L, 2-bladed plastic main rotor, all lithographed tin, black/white zebra stripes, "Safari" titles.
Hughes 500, 13" L, 3-bladed plastic main rotor, all lithographed tin, red/white, "Rescate Aereo."
Hughes 500, 13" L, battery, 3-bladed plastic main rotor with lights, plastic with tinplate upper cabin portion, canopy with pilot figurine, black plastic skids, yellow/ocher camouflage.
Hughes 500, 13" L, battery, 3-bladed plastic main rotor with lights, plastic with tinplate upper cabin portion, canopy with pilot figurine, black plastic skids, red, "Cruz Roja" "BW-6."
Light Aircraft:
Avioneta Piper Comanche, 10 1/2" WS, friction, plastic 2-bladed propeller, in the following color schemes:
"Caza," green plastic wings/lower fuselage assembly, lithographed tin upper fuselage, olive green/brown camouflage.
"Turismo," blue plastic wings/lower fuselage assembly, lithographed tin upper fuselage, yellow/red/blue, "UX-32."
White plastic wings/lower fuselage assembly, lithographed tin upper fuselage, white with red cross markings, "UX-35," "54-30-CN" titles in black, "Rescate Aereo 7022" labels on wings.
PAYVA
Around 1970 a Spanish firm called Payva, quite different from Payá but based in the same city, issued a set of six very small tin friction airplanes based on tooling used by the Japanese firm, S2 Toy (see). The planes came in a box with three hangars and a B-25 on the cover. Small tin friction Concordes with pinwheels visible through the upper wing surfaces were also produced in several color combinations.
PE PE
This Portuguese firm issued twin-engine airliners with three-bladed props and open windows. They are unpowered. The fuselage is molded plastic; the wings are tin. The main wheels under the wings are fitted with streamlined “pants” with molded rivet detail. The name “PEPE” is molded onto the tail fin. The toys are not based on an original prototype; rather, they are generic. However, the streamlined fuselage and tail surfaces resemble those of the HK airliners in shape. Span is 9” length is 8 ½”. Source: Jorge Bras, O Brinquedo Português. See also Armindo Moreira Lopes.
PICÓ
Another Spanish firm based in Ibi that made at least two very different-looking painted tin airplanes.
Light Aircraft:
Streamlined racer, 2-bladed metal prop, silver with red leading and trailing edges of wings, "Pico" on fuselage.
Single motor, 2-bladed metal prop, two additional small nacelles with no props on stubby wings, rectangular punched-out cabin windows, painted silver.
PIONEER INDUSTRIAL WORKS (PRIVATE) LTD CALCUTTA
This Indian firm produced a twin-engine airplane that is similar in size and appearance to early Bandai toys of the B-26 and B-50. The name of the factory is written on the box label along with ”Bomber Plane” “Automatic Mechanical Toys.”
Bomber:
Friction, raised flight deck at mid fuselage, two four-bladed metal props, punched out windows, horse in circle with gold wing logos on wings:
Blue, red nacelles, winged deer replaces horses on wings.
Pale green with red nacelles.
Red overall with green nacelles and props.
PLAY ME
Founded in 1969 in Beniparrell, Valencia, Spain, and best known for its die cast aircraft series, Play Me is known to have issued at least one tin friction airplane. This appears to be same as or similar to the Japanese-made Convair F-106 # 33 sold in US in header bags. The Play Me version was sold boxed.
Airliner, Jet:
#304, Convair F-106, 7 1/4" L, friction, blue, red details, US markings, "JET PLANE" in white on fuselage.
PLAYGO TOYS
Playgo Toys is a modern Chinese (Hong Kong) firm that made a plastic toy 747-400 with a tin plate upper fuselage and tail fin. The plane is fitted with red and green lights on its rather thick "winglets." A realistic 1990s-era British Airways color scheme indicates this toy predated the age of mandatory and prohibitive licensing fees.
PLAYWELL
Playwell manufactured tin and plastic battery airliners in Hong Kong in the 1980s. The DC-10 is a very nice model, similar to other Hong Kong DC-10s, but it does not have the opening cabin door, and the entire upper fuselage is tin whereas others may have plastic below the tail fin/engine assembly. In 1986 Playwell issued an all-plastic 747 in Lufthansa colors, made in China. It is fitted with a propeller that enables it to fly in a circle when suspended from a ceiling. The nose wheel/strut assembly acts as the on-off switch, quite the clever design.
Airliner, Jet:
Douglas DC-10, battery, plastic with tin upper fuselage only, silver/red wing engines with chrome intakes, grey tail fin with blue light, "DC-10" in black on wings,
-Alitalia, silver/white with green and red markings.
-KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, blue tail fin light, aqua upper fuselage.
-Lufthansa, red tail fin light, white upper fuselage, blue markings, blue crane in yellow circle on grey tail fin.
PRETUL AGATEX
Apparently Pretul was a Romanian factory. This plant produced an attractive Tu-104 passenger jet. The state-owned airline TAROM operated the 707, but neither the Tu-104 nor the similar but smaller –124. Pretul’s other aerospace toys included rocket ships.
Airliner:
Ilyushin/Iliouchine Il-12 or Il-14, friction, nose wheel, "NI 2196T-67 Agatex Pret Lei 39 Lot. IV.79." lithographed under forward fuselage, blue plastic 4-blade props, chrome cowlings, red markings on crown, white upper fuselage, blue cheat line, grey wings/stabilizers/lower fuselage, "Transporturile Aeriene Române" titles, narrow red/yellow/blue Romanian fin flash on tail fin with registration YR-AM.
Airliner, Jet:
Tupolev Tu-104 or -124 (Twin-jet) #17074-66, 17” WS, friction, nose wheel, pale grey, white upper fuselage, red cheat line, all lower case “tarom” titles YR-APC, Tupolev logo near nose, Romanian flag on tail fin.
PUKY
Made in Argentina
Airliner, Jet:
Aerospatiale-BAC Concorde, 12"L, friction, white, red and blue Air France 1980s-90s colors.
RTI
Possibly a brand from India, the RTI logo inside an oval appears on the starboard wingtip of an unusual supersonic transport lithographed in garish colors that seem to match those seen on Indian toy rocket ships.
Airliner, Jet:
Supersonic transport, 10" long, friction, "Spectro Rocket" on wings, intricate red/yellow/green/blue finish, lithographed pilots and passengers in windows.
RABBIT, see USAGIYA
REI
Brinquedos Rei (King toys) is a Brazilian firm located in the industrial development zone surrounding the inland river port, Manaus. Rei's trademark is a cartoon boy wearing a crown. This firm produced a nice tin and plastic battery toy of a DC-10 around 1980. The model is an original, good quality design. As the upper fuselage and wings are a single piece of tin, the wings do not detach from the body. The wide-bodied jet is finished in the accurate color scheme of the national air carrier VARIG, Viação Aereo Rio Grandense. It is smaller than a Nomura DC-10. A Boeing 727 in 1980 Mexicana colors, with gold cheat line, stylized lower-case titles, registration XA-TAC and a Mexican flag as part of its lithographed finish, was made in Mexico using similar tooling - allegedly by Industrias Plasticas SA (no trademark seen).
Airliner, Jet:
Douglas DC-10 Ref# G-8, 10" WS, battery, red light atop fuselage, tin one-piece upper body and wings, plastic lower parts (including wing engines) and tail fin, silver/white, blue lithographed VARIG Brasil colors with green/yellow/blue flag, Icaro winged woman in oval near flight deck, compass logo sticker on tail fin, PP-VRG on wings.
RICO
Spain's Rico manufactured high-quality wind-up toys, lithographed and decorated with stencilled, spray-painted details. Rico planes reflected the streamlined style of the 1930s typified by the elegant DH.88 Comet air racer. In addition to the twin-prop model of the real plane, Rico's DH.88 toys could also have a single or even three props. This plane was available in red, white, blue and green. Post-war Rico toys included a four-engined airliner resembling a Lockheed 188 Electra with four plastic discs to simulate the spinning propellers. The Chirri biplane is similar to the Nomura Grumman F3F Navy Fighter, whereas the real life Chirri was a Fiat model. In addition, Rico produced copies of Tomiyama's 24" long 1967 jet bomber design that it named La Sæta and La Sæta Negra (arrow and black arrow).
Airliners:
Four-engined Airliner, 13 1/2" WS, metal props, silver with red cheat line, round tail fin with red/yellow/red Spanish flag "fin flash" on rudder.
Four-engined Airliner, 13 1/2" WS, metal props, blue/white, round tail fin with red/yellow/red Spanish flag "fin flash" on rudder.
Four-engined Airliner, 13 1/2" WS, plastic prop discs, white with red cheat line, round tail fin with red/yellow/red Spanish flag "fin flash" on rudder.
Four-engined Airliner, 13 1/2" WS, plastic prop discs, green with white cheat line, round tail fin with red/yellow/red Spanish flag "fin flash" on rudder.
Twin-engined Airliner, 13 1/2" WS, plastic prop discs, "LAR" stencilled on wings.
Twin-engined Seaplane, 13 1/2" WS, two large pontoons, silver with red spray-painted markings.
Airliner, Jet:
DeHavilland Comet 4, 8 1/2" WS, friction, two external wheels for sparks, painted white, light blue or red painted wings, dark blue cheat lines, red square on white tail fin, BEA British European Airways, see also Yone-Ya.
Fighters:
Grumman F3F Biplano Chirri, 11 1/2" WS, battery, white 3-bladed plastic prop with red plastic cowling, silver, yellow upper wing, red tail, "VISTA, SUERTE Y AL TORO" motto in circle on tail fin with black cross on white rudder portion.
Single-engined Monoplane, 7 1/2" WS, two-bladed metal props, silver overall with painted red stripes and "Rico" in stencilled letters on wings.
Fighter, Jet:
Twin-engined Jet, plastic with tin upper wings, battery remote control, silver plastic jet pods under wings, molded blue plastic lower fuselage and tail, grey tin upper fuselage, blue tin plate upper wings with German crosses, lithographed pilots in canopy, LW-29.
Helicopters:
Red, same as GAMA 55 (see under Mangold).
Light Aircraft:
Piper Aztec, friction, clear plastic canopy, plastic 2-bladed props, white with red and dark blue jagged flame designs, R-28 on wings.
ROSKO
The "ROSKO TESTED" symbol of this US toy importer appears on boxes for some Japanese tin toys; the firm is not a manufacturer.
RUSS BERRIE
This American novelty gift distributor issued a small Chinese-made tin and plastic wind-up toy biplane in the 1990s named the Stunt Master. As the plane moves along the floor, it changes direction. It resembles the earlier Japanese Takatoku brand biplane and might be a re-issue.
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Re: Tin Toy Plane Production List Project
by grwebster » Mon Apr 11, 2011 10:43 am
Great info, Tone. Very interesting
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S Brands Part 1
by Tone » Sat Apr 30, 2011 3:04 pm
SEI TRADEMARK
A Japanese WWII fighter in a box with Japanese characters, indicating it was produced for the domestic market, has a trademark “SEI” within a circle. The fuselage is the same as that used for the Mitsuhashi and Momoya brands’ P-51 Mustang.
Fighter:
Single-engined WWII Fighter, 14” WS, friction, large white 3-bladed plastic prop, lithographed pilot, black cowling, dark green overall with red insignia on wings and fuselage, yellow markings including chevrons on fuselage, 124 in white on tail fin.
SFTF
These Chinese tin toys from the People’s Republic do not pretend to be “collectibles;” however, because they first appeared in the USA in the 1980s and later, US retailers often sell them as such. Apparently, the prefixes ME, MF, and MS identify battery (electrical), friction or wind-up (spring) power, respectively. The quality is nice; however, the subject matter and lithography is generic in form. A wide variety of fantasy and space-related craft exist.
Airliners:
MF-036 Passenger Plane, two metal props, off-white fuselage, red wings, aqua cheat line and markings, “International Express.”
MF 104 Air Plane, 9 ½” WS, two plastic props, silver with blue/red markings, “Overseas Airlines.”
MF 107 Air Plane, 6 ½” WS, two plastic props, silver with blue/red markings, “Air Plane,” same fuselage as MF-047.
-Silver with red markings, blue four-bladed plastic propellers, Turk Hava Yollari, "THY DC-9" on wings, red crescent moon with multiple horizontal stripes on tail fin.
Airliners, Jet:
ME-087 Jet Airliner (707), 18” WS, silver/white, blue and red markings, silver/white with red and medium blue markings, black "JET AIRLINER" titles, smaller "BATTERY OPERATED" near rear fuselage, "ME-087" on wings in red, 1968, same as Line Mar, Marx, Nikko Gangu 60s planes.
ME-789 Jet Airliner, 24” WS, fuselage of Nikko Gangu/ME-087, two red plastic jet engines and T-tail, white/silver, blue cheat line and tail fin, black “Passenger Plane” titles.
ME-871 Jet Airliner, delta wings placed high on fuselage with two large tubular engines, white with grey/red/blue markings.
MF-047 Jet Liner, 6 ½” WS, DH Comet, pale blue with red markings, same fuselage as MF-107.
MF-092, Supersonic, silver/red, swept wings with 4 jet pods near fuselage, two rows of cabin windows, “ST-1” on wings in red and on tail fin in blue.
MF-101 Rocket Plane, 13 ¼” long, 4 tin engines, grey, off-white cheat line, red and dark blue markings, “MF 101” in red on tail fin, “ST 1” in blue on delta wings.
MF-105, shaped like F-104 with passenger cabin windows, transparent red plastic nose cone, red plastic windows at rear fuselage, dual cockpits, wing tip tanks, silver with red/blue markings.
MF-153 Jetliner, friction, unstepped pointed nose, 2 transparent red plastic jet engines with white exhausts on fuselage near tail, 2 grey plastic bow elevators, yellow, white cheat line, blue swept wings, red markings, MF153 on each wing, M on tail, "Jetliner" in black on fuselage.
MF-155 Jetliner, 12” L, blue/yellow, plastic bow elevators, twin red/white plastic jet pods mounted aft fuselage, red M on tail fin, same fuselage as MF-240 (unstepped nose).
MF-202 Jet Liner, 10” L, short swept wings with 4 half-cylindrical engine nacelles atop them, small triangular bow elevators, white with pale grey wings and red/blue details, packaged on card with plastic wrapping.
MF-205 Jetliner, supersonic, delta wings, white/light grey, red cheat line, green/white/red tail stripes.
MF 212 Jet Passenger Liner, 10” WS, two red/white plastic jet pods at rear upper fuselage, silver/white, blue cheat line, black titles.
MF-216 Straight-wing Corporate Jet, 9” WS, 10” L, two red/white plastic jet pods at rear fuselage, T tail, yellow plastic wingtip fuel tanks. grey/off-white, red cheat line, black “Jet Airliner” titles, “Toys MF 216” on wings.
MF 240 Jet Airliner, 10” WS, four red/white plastic jet pods, silver/white, red cheat line, black titles.
MF-833, variant of ME-087 with two jet pods on wings, red cheat line.
MF 984 Passenger Plane, 2 red/white plastic jet pods, blue/white fuselage, silver wings with blue leading edges and “MF 984” in red, blue tail fin.
MF-??? Air Plane / Avion de Ligne supersonic jetliner, no jet pods, grey/white, red cheat line, red/yellow/blue pinwheels lithographed on wings and tail fin, “Air Plane.”
(Unknown number) Boeing 727, plastic with tin upper fuselage only, light grey/white, dark blue cheat line, “Air China F-0155.”
Fighters:
Fighters, Jet:
MF-103, pilot figurine under clear plastic canopy, wingtip tanks, small tail surfaces, silver with light and dark blue markings, red lightning bolt on fuselage.
MF-108, Draken, silver/off-white/dark blue with red markings, “Satellite 1070”
MF-824, 2 red/white plastic jet pods, red fuselage, white delta wings, dark blue band on red tail fin, “Super Sonic Fighter.”
PF-292, MiG-21, plastic underparts, white needle nose, red plastic window at rear fuselage, silver, red stripes on wings, red triangular tail fin, “Fighter.”
(Unknown number) MiG 15 “Fighter,” 5 ½” WS, silver with blue highlights, red upper fuselage.
(Unknown number) MiG 15, shiny metallic red.
Helicopters:
ME-632 Helicopter, flat, rectangular, two 4-bladed rotors, blue.
MF-792 Hiller Hornet Helicopter, red 3-bladed main rotor, light grey/blue, “World.”
MF-821 Friction Helicopter, 10" L, "rotodyne" type, round nose, tin three-blade main rotor, two plastic four-blade propellers on wings, light grey with blue and red markings "Helicopter 821."
MS-165 Sky Bus helicopter, two plastic rotors, yellow.
MS-270 Rescue S-54, three-blade plastic rotor, red.
Light Aircraft
MF-843 Single-engine Low wing Monoplane, friction, two-blade plastic prop, red with white and red markings "Touring" on port fuselage and "Airplane" on starboard.
SH TRADEMARK, see Horikawa.
ST SYMBOL
Toys packaged in boxes with this symbol were made in Japan beginning in the early 1970s. ST stands for safety toy. Japanese law or industry standards require this symbol; it is not a maker’s mark.
SAITO (or SANYO?) - S2 Trademark
Saito is the premier manufacturer of miniature tin toy airplanes. They are friction toys with wing spans of 3 to 5 inches, and marked with the trademark S2 (or, occasionally, TK) in a diamond. The styles and variants are numerous, often with interchangeable fuselages, wings, tail fins and friction motor housings. There are some models in common with Ichimura.
The earliest S2 toys date from the 1950s and have very thin wheels, but the majority of Saito’s output dates from the 1960s into the early 1970s. Production continued into the 1990s, but with a high degree of plastic. Some boxed sets exist. An S2 Convair 990 jetliner, with its four pointed wing fairings, is the only toy representing that plane, though many other models are nondescript or ambiguous in appearance – truly, toys.
A Spanish company called Payva (see) manufactured tin toy planes using Saito-S2 tooling in the 70s.
Factories in Eastern Europe may have turned out toy planes using ex-Saito tooling. There is a small yellow airplane with green/white/red bands and a red star on the nose; variants of the SPAD XIII biplane, one with Polish registration SP-PBK; and a four-engine Turkish Nekur brand jet with THY markings.
Airliners:
Airliner, straight wings, no engines:
-Caravelle, silver with red cheat line and wing leading edges, three red horizontal stripes on tail fin, blue anti-glare, CARAVELLE on fuselage in blue and SNCASI SE-210 on wings in blue.
-"Caravelle" on fuselage as above, tail marked as above, "PAA N801PA" on wings.
-Pan American, dark blue cheat line and tail fin, red leading edges on wings, N801PA.
Convair 340, 4” WS, friction, same as Line Mar C-131, two metal four-bladed props, see also Line Mar Toys:
Bright yellow, red cheat line and points, blue flaps, “World Airlins” titles.
Silver, red cheat line and points, blue flaps, “World Airlins” titles.
Twin-engined Airliner #TX-171, no props, black plastic tail fin, white/red/yellow.
Airliners, Jet:
Air Bus (A-300?), twin-engine swept-wing jet, pink plastic tail fin, white/blue body, red/yellow/blue wings.
Boeing 707 and KC-135:
3 7/8" WS, 4 cylindrical tin jet pods, silver, red stripe on body, red leading edges, yellow and red stripes on fin, USAF KC-135 (same as Line Mar DC-8)
3 7/8" WS, flat engines on wing leading edges, silver, red stripe on body, red leading edges, yellow and red stripes on fin, USAF KC-135.
5 1/4" WS, green and red Alitalia see also Ichimura.
5 1/4" WS, no underside, silver overall, dark blue and red trim, “American Air Lines AAL-7.”
5 1/4" WS, silver/white, medium blue Pan American markings.
5 1/4" WS, red/white TWA, N743TW in dark blue on silver wings, red plastic tail fin.
5 1/4" WS, silver overall, yellow cheat line, dark blue and red trim, USAF KC-135 “Boeing 707” on tail fin.
5 1/4" WS, gold/white, red/blue wings, yellow trim, yellow plastic tail, American Airlines 1987.
5 1/4" WS, gold/white, yellow/red wings, blue trim, red plastic tail, Pan American 1987.
5 1/4" WS, gold/white, blue/yellow wings, red trim, red plastic tail, Trans-World TWA 1987.
5 1/4" WS, multicolored Pokémon character graphics and titles, 2000s.
Boeing 727, 6 ½” WS, 7 ½” L:
American, white fuselage, red cheat line, silver tail fin, blue/silver/yellow wings, “AA” logo in circle on tail and wing.
Pan American, silver/white with blue markings and red trim.
TWA, chrome silver, red markings with golden globe symbol on wing, red tail fin with white letters, light blue wing leading edges.
Also in plastic with tinplate upper portions.
Boeing 727, Lucky Toy header bag packaging, blue plastic, red/yellow tin inlays with TWA markings and golden globes logo. Suspected.
Boeing 737, 3 1/8" WS, metal or white plastic fin, white body, blue/red cheat lines, blue/red wings with "Boeing 737" titles.
Boeing 737, 3 1/8" WS, red plastic tail fin, white body with dark blue cheat line, white wings with red bands.
Boeing 737, 3 1/8" WS, green plastic tail fin, white/green body, green/yellow wings with red engines, “Sky Liners” titles.
Boeing 747, all tin, no plastic, silver/white/blue, Pan Am 1725.
Boeing 747, yellow plastic tail fin, white/yellow/red/blue fuselage, green/yellow/red/blue wings.
Boeing 747, 6 1/2" WS, plastic friction motor housing, yellow plastic tail fin with molded "No 555," silver/white, bright blue cheat line, pale blue wing leading edges, red shaped engine nacelles at wing leading edges, Pan Am Jumbo.
Boeing 747, 6 1/2" WS, 7" L, plastic friction motor housing, red plastic tail fin with molded "No 688," flat engines part of wings, TWA, white fuselage with red cheat line, blue leading edges on silver wings and stabilizers, Jumbo on rear fuselage, 1758 on wing.
Boeing 747, 7" WS, plastic friction motor housing, red plastic with molded "B 747” on tail fin; white tin plate inlays on upper fuselage, wings and stabilizers; red cheat line, blue “British airways Jumbo” titles on fuselage; “British” in red on port wing, white Speedbird logo in blue circle on starboard wing.
Comet 4, 4" WS, wings with engines near body and leading edge tanks, silver with dark and light blue markings, BOAC DHC-8 titles in red.
Convair 990, 3 1/8" WS, red/blue wings with four fairings aft, blue cheat line, "990" in blue circle on tail fin, "General Dynamics American Airlines" titles:
-Silver lower fuselage, tinplate tail fin
-As above, plain red plastic tail fin.
-Yellow lower fuselage
Delta-Wing Jetliner, 6" L, wings rounded in front and square in back with inserted blue/red/yellow pinwheels:
Red/silver with yellow stripe on body and yellow and red markings on tail fin, dark blue USAF markings, "HB-2" on one side of body.
Red plastic tail fin, gold with red and bright blue details, red cheat line, "Tina Airlines" titles, "WA N354" on wings.
Red plastic tail fin, white upper fuselage, red/yellow/blue, "World Airlines" N354.
Red plastic tail fin, white plastic underparts, blue upper fuselage, red cheat line, "World Jet Lines" titles, yellow/blue/dark green wings with "JX 37" in red, see also HC-Hip Cheong brand (made in Hong Kong) # 203.
Douglas DC-9, 3" WS, red/white/blue with "TWA Douglas DC-9" titles.
Four-engine Jet, 4" WS, lithographed engines on wing near body like Comet:
Silver with dark blue and red “American Air Lines” markings, “AAL-7.”
Silver/white with dark blue, red and yellow Pan American markings, "PANAM DC-8" on wings.
Silver/white with red, dark and light blue TWA markings.
Four-engine Jet/DeHavilland Comet, 5” WS, 707 fuselage and tail fin, shaped engines on wing near body like Comet:
Air France, silver/white with blue Air France markings.
AA, silver with dark blue and red “American Air Lines” markings, “AAL-7.”
BOAC, pale silvery-blue with dark blue and red BOAC markings, “DHC-8.”
Swissair, white crown, blue engines and trailing edges on wings, “Swiss Air” titles, “Coronado” on tail fin, HB-IBK (N.B.: the real Coronado was a Convair 990).(Suspected).
Four-engine Jet, flat engines at wing leading edges, short round nose:
-Dark green, red details, Army on wing in yellow.
Four-engine Jet, flat engines at wing leading edges, long nose, swept tail fin:
4 1/8" WS, dark green with red tips of wings and tail surfaces, yellow Army titles.
4 1/8" WS, silver with blue/red details, BOAC “DHC-8" titles, "Comet" on tail.
4 1/8" WS, “TK” trademark, beige with green camouflage, red "engines," US Air Force, 15723 on tail fin.
4 1/2" WS, white upper fuselage and underside, silver wings, red/medium blue markings, "MCDONNELL 220" in red with registration N220N.
4 1/2" WS, green overall, red markings, "Army B-12."
4 1/2" WS, silver with red/black markings, "US AIR FORCE," "36" on tail fin.
Also silver/white in American, Pan American, TWA colors; see also Ichimura.
Lockheed 1011 TriStar, yellow/white/red, blue "World Air Bus" fuselage titles, "WAB" on tail fin.
1989 issue plastic jet liners with tin upper fuselages:
Boeing 707, 3” WS, Lufthansa, red with blue or green tail fin.
Boeing 727, 3” WS
-British airways, red with yellow tail, white fuselage has blue cheat line.
-TWA, blue with red tails, tin wing inlays, twin globe logo.
-TWA, blue with red tail or red with dark blue tail.
Boeing 737, 3” WS, British airways, blue with yellow tail fin.
Boeing 747, 3” WS
-Northwest Orient, blue with red fin, white fuselage with red lettering, green/yellow tin wing inlays.
-Pan Am, yellow with red tail fin.
Douglas DC-10, 3” WS
-American Airlines, off-white with yellow fin.
-American Airlines, purple with yellow fin, red/blue tin wing inlays.
-Christmas Special, red with white upper body, green cheat line and wing inlays, Kurt Adler Co. Santa logo atop fuselage.
-Lufthansa, red with yellow fin, green/yellow wings, white fuselage with blue cheat line.
-Lufthansa, red plastic fin, blue plastic lower parts, lithographed tin parts as above.
Twin-engine Jet, dramatic swept wings with 2 jets, blue plastic tail fin, red/light blue, BOAC DHC-8.
Fighters:
Biplane-SPAD SXIII, 4 3/4" WS, plastic, spinning 3-bladed prop, plastic with tin upper wing inlay and upper fuselage, in the following color schemes, 1990:
Blue plastic, blue/white camouflage pattern with yellow/red titles.
Red plastic, red/white chequered pattern, N-5477.
Yellow plastic, yellow/red sunburst pattern on upper wing, yellow/red fuselage stripes, N-2050.
F-51 Airplane, 4" WS, metal 4-bladed prop, blue, red details, "USAF" in yellow on wing.
Straight-winged Fighter, black/red, red arrow on upper fuselage, "Navy" "CZ."
Fighters, Jet:
Convair F-106, 3 3/4" L, two flat protruding wing tanks, silver/red, US Air Force # 4477, unusual.
-Yellow plastic tail fin.
Convair XF-92A, 4 1/2" WS, friction, royal blue with red plastic spark window on fuselage, red leading edges, 6682 on tail fin (Suspected).
Delta-Wing Jet, 3 5/8” WS, thin wheels, red body, squared-off fin, light blue delta wings with red trim, "F-107."
Delta-Wing Jet, 3 5/8" WS, earlier issue with proportionately shorter fuselage, thin wheels, aqua body, red tail fin with "0327," red wings, USAF.
Delta-Wing Jet, 3 5/8" WS, later issue with proportionately longer fuselage, aqua body, solid red tail fin, red wings, USAF.
McDonnell F4 Phantom (?), Lucky Toy header bag packaging, blue plastic, black/blue/red/yellow/white tin inlays, Navy 24-144.Suspected.
Straight-wing Jet, 4 1/2” WS, unpowered, aqua/red wings, red body with aqua upper fuselage, "F-50." (“PAT P” on tail fin – unusual)
Straight-wing Jet, 4 1/2” WS, unpowered, aqua wings and body, red/white stripe markings, 2 pilots in windows and "ray guns" on wings, “F-102.”
Straight-wing Jet, 4" WS, bright green, yellow/red wings, red fin, "0729."
Straight-wing Jet, 4” WS, dark green/yellow with red nose, wingtip tanks, gold bottom, Army.
Straight-wing Jet #Y-17, wingtip tanks, blue plastic tail fin, red/white/yellow/blue.
Straight-wing Jet, blue wings with wingtip fuel tanks; blue plastic lower fuselage and stabilizers; yellow plastic tail fin; red/white/yellow/dark green tin upper fuselage, Army. Packaged in boxed set labeled "Assorted Air plane" with BOAC 737, Lufthansa 707, Pan Am 747, and TWA 727, circa 1990.
Swept-wing Jet, 4" WS, black with red details, Navy 1820.
Swept-wing Jet, 4" WS, bright green with red markings, USAF.
Swept-wing Jet, bright orange plastic tail fin, white/red/yellow green fuselage, blue/yellow/red wings.
Swept-wing Jet, dramatic swept plastic wings, yellow, with 2 molded jet engines; red plastic tail fin; yellow plastic lower parts and stabilizers; blue tin fuselage with red nose, Navy. Packaged in boxed set labeled "Assorted Air plane" with BOAC 737, Lufthansa 707, Pan Am 747, and TWA 727, circa 1990.
Vought F7U-3 Cutlass, 4 1/4" WS, 4" long, friction, pale green/dark blue with red markings on wings, red/yellow chequer pattern on tail fins, 420 on tail fins in white (Suspected-trademark visible with description "letters or numbers in a diamond shape")
X-15 (See under "TK" ), 4 1/8" L, short straight wings and small tail fin, silver, red trim and USAF markings, no trademark. This toy is probably based on a French Trident, with wingtip jets, and came packaged in a box marked "TK" with other small planes.
Light Aircraft:
Cessna, high wing, 7" WS, in the following color schemes:
Blue plastic with metal upper insets, red plastic prop and tail fin, yellow with red/blue markings, “Heron Cessna” on wings, N9124M.
Blue plastic with metal upper insets, yellow plastic prop and tail fin, blue with yellow stripes, "Dove Cessna" on wings, N9246M.
Yellow plastic with metal upper insets, blue plastic prop, yellow with red/blue markings, “Heron Cessna” on wings, N9124M.
Ryan Navion (?), 3 3/4" WS, white/red, diagonal stripes on wings, wingtip tanks, N517.
T-33A Straight-Wing Jet, 5 1/4" WS:
-Silver/red, yellow wing tanks, Navy
-Black/red, Navy T-33A.
-Blue plastic fin, yellow, red/white/medium blue markings, people in windows, white "Air Queen" titles, "S176T” on wings.
-Purple plastic fin, blue, white crown, red stripes, people in windows, "Sky Lines" titles, "S175T” on wings, yellow wing tip tanks.
-Yellow plastic fin, people in windows, red/white with yellow and blue trim, S-177.
Twin-Engine Airplane, 4" WS, "TK" trademark, silver, red and black markings, "Cessna N6350A."
Twin-Engine Airplane, 4" WS, bright blue with red details, Navy.
Twin-Engine Airplane, 4" WS, bright blue, yellow wing leading edges, red/white tail trailing edges, yellow "Navy" titles, yellow "9" on tail fin.
Twin-Engine Airplane, 4" WS, black fuselage, red wings, Navy.
Twin-Engine Airplane, 4" WS, silver, red/yellow details, USAF.
A Japanese WWII fighter in a box with Japanese characters, indicating it was produced for the domestic market, has a trademark “SEI” within a circle. The fuselage is the same as that used for the Mitsuhashi and Momoya brands’ P-51 Mustang.
Fighter:
Single-engined WWII Fighter, 14” WS, friction, large white 3-bladed plastic prop, lithographed pilot, black cowling, dark green overall with red insignia on wings and fuselage, yellow markings including chevrons on fuselage, 124 in white on tail fin.
SFTF
These Chinese tin toys from the People’s Republic do not pretend to be “collectibles;” however, because they first appeared in the USA in the 1980s and later, US retailers often sell them as such. Apparently, the prefixes ME, MF, and MS identify battery (electrical), friction or wind-up (spring) power, respectively. The quality is nice; however, the subject matter and lithography is generic in form. A wide variety of fantasy and space-related craft exist.
Airliners:
MF-036 Passenger Plane, two metal props, off-white fuselage, red wings, aqua cheat line and markings, “International Express.”
MF 104 Air Plane, 9 ½” WS, two plastic props, silver with blue/red markings, “Overseas Airlines.”
MF 107 Air Plane, 6 ½” WS, two plastic props, silver with blue/red markings, “Air Plane,” same fuselage as MF-047.
-Silver with red markings, blue four-bladed plastic propellers, Turk Hava Yollari, "THY DC-9" on wings, red crescent moon with multiple horizontal stripes on tail fin.
Airliners, Jet:
ME-087 Jet Airliner (707), 18” WS, silver/white, blue and red markings, silver/white with red and medium blue markings, black "JET AIRLINER" titles, smaller "BATTERY OPERATED" near rear fuselage, "ME-087" on wings in red, 1968, same as Line Mar, Marx, Nikko Gangu 60s planes.
ME-789 Jet Airliner, 24” WS, fuselage of Nikko Gangu/ME-087, two red plastic jet engines and T-tail, white/silver, blue cheat line and tail fin, black “Passenger Plane” titles.
ME-871 Jet Airliner, delta wings placed high on fuselage with two large tubular engines, white with grey/red/blue markings.
MF-047 Jet Liner, 6 ½” WS, DH Comet, pale blue with red markings, same fuselage as MF-107.
MF-092, Supersonic, silver/red, swept wings with 4 jet pods near fuselage, two rows of cabin windows, “ST-1” on wings in red and on tail fin in blue.
MF-101 Rocket Plane, 13 ¼” long, 4 tin engines, grey, off-white cheat line, red and dark blue markings, “MF 101” in red on tail fin, “ST 1” in blue on delta wings.
MF-105, shaped like F-104 with passenger cabin windows, transparent red plastic nose cone, red plastic windows at rear fuselage, dual cockpits, wing tip tanks, silver with red/blue markings.
MF-153 Jetliner, friction, unstepped pointed nose, 2 transparent red plastic jet engines with white exhausts on fuselage near tail, 2 grey plastic bow elevators, yellow, white cheat line, blue swept wings, red markings, MF153 on each wing, M on tail, "Jetliner" in black on fuselage.
MF-155 Jetliner, 12” L, blue/yellow, plastic bow elevators, twin red/white plastic jet pods mounted aft fuselage, red M on tail fin, same fuselage as MF-240 (unstepped nose).
MF-202 Jet Liner, 10” L, short swept wings with 4 half-cylindrical engine nacelles atop them, small triangular bow elevators, white with pale grey wings and red/blue details, packaged on card with plastic wrapping.
MF-205 Jetliner, supersonic, delta wings, white/light grey, red cheat line, green/white/red tail stripes.
MF 212 Jet Passenger Liner, 10” WS, two red/white plastic jet pods at rear upper fuselage, silver/white, blue cheat line, black titles.
MF-216 Straight-wing Corporate Jet, 9” WS, 10” L, two red/white plastic jet pods at rear fuselage, T tail, yellow plastic wingtip fuel tanks. grey/off-white, red cheat line, black “Jet Airliner” titles, “Toys MF 216” on wings.
MF 240 Jet Airliner, 10” WS, four red/white plastic jet pods, silver/white, red cheat line, black titles.
MF-833, variant of ME-087 with two jet pods on wings, red cheat line.
MF 984 Passenger Plane, 2 red/white plastic jet pods, blue/white fuselage, silver wings with blue leading edges and “MF 984” in red, blue tail fin.
MF-??? Air Plane / Avion de Ligne supersonic jetliner, no jet pods, grey/white, red cheat line, red/yellow/blue pinwheels lithographed on wings and tail fin, “Air Plane.”
(Unknown number) Boeing 727, plastic with tin upper fuselage only, light grey/white, dark blue cheat line, “Air China F-0155.”
Fighters:
Fighters, Jet:
MF-103, pilot figurine under clear plastic canopy, wingtip tanks, small tail surfaces, silver with light and dark blue markings, red lightning bolt on fuselage.
MF-108, Draken, silver/off-white/dark blue with red markings, “Satellite 1070”
MF-824, 2 red/white plastic jet pods, red fuselage, white delta wings, dark blue band on red tail fin, “Super Sonic Fighter.”
PF-292, MiG-21, plastic underparts, white needle nose, red plastic window at rear fuselage, silver, red stripes on wings, red triangular tail fin, “Fighter.”
(Unknown number) MiG 15 “Fighter,” 5 ½” WS, silver with blue highlights, red upper fuselage.
(Unknown number) MiG 15, shiny metallic red.
Helicopters:
ME-632 Helicopter, flat, rectangular, two 4-bladed rotors, blue.
MF-792 Hiller Hornet Helicopter, red 3-bladed main rotor, light grey/blue, “World.”
MF-821 Friction Helicopter, 10" L, "rotodyne" type, round nose, tin three-blade main rotor, two plastic four-blade propellers on wings, light grey with blue and red markings "Helicopter 821."
MS-165 Sky Bus helicopter, two plastic rotors, yellow.
MS-270 Rescue S-54, three-blade plastic rotor, red.
Light Aircraft
MF-843 Single-engine Low wing Monoplane, friction, two-blade plastic prop, red with white and red markings "Touring" on port fuselage and "Airplane" on starboard.
SH TRADEMARK, see Horikawa.
ST SYMBOL
Toys packaged in boxes with this symbol were made in Japan beginning in the early 1970s. ST stands for safety toy. Japanese law or industry standards require this symbol; it is not a maker’s mark.
SAITO (or SANYO?) - S2 Trademark
Saito is the premier manufacturer of miniature tin toy airplanes. They are friction toys with wing spans of 3 to 5 inches, and marked with the trademark S2 (or, occasionally, TK) in a diamond. The styles and variants are numerous, often with interchangeable fuselages, wings, tail fins and friction motor housings. There are some models in common with Ichimura.
The earliest S2 toys date from the 1950s and have very thin wheels, but the majority of Saito’s output dates from the 1960s into the early 1970s. Production continued into the 1990s, but with a high degree of plastic. Some boxed sets exist. An S2 Convair 990 jetliner, with its four pointed wing fairings, is the only toy representing that plane, though many other models are nondescript or ambiguous in appearance – truly, toys.
A Spanish company called Payva (see) manufactured tin toy planes using Saito-S2 tooling in the 70s.
Factories in Eastern Europe may have turned out toy planes using ex-Saito tooling. There is a small yellow airplane with green/white/red bands and a red star on the nose; variants of the SPAD XIII biplane, one with Polish registration SP-PBK; and a four-engine Turkish Nekur brand jet with THY markings.
Airliners:
Airliner, straight wings, no engines:
-Caravelle, silver with red cheat line and wing leading edges, three red horizontal stripes on tail fin, blue anti-glare, CARAVELLE on fuselage in blue and SNCASI SE-210 on wings in blue.
-"Caravelle" on fuselage as above, tail marked as above, "PAA N801PA" on wings.
-Pan American, dark blue cheat line and tail fin, red leading edges on wings, N801PA.
Convair 340, 4” WS, friction, same as Line Mar C-131, two metal four-bladed props, see also Line Mar Toys:
Bright yellow, red cheat line and points, blue flaps, “World Airlins” titles.
Silver, red cheat line and points, blue flaps, “World Airlins” titles.
Twin-engined Airliner #TX-171, no props, black plastic tail fin, white/red/yellow.
Airliners, Jet:
Air Bus (A-300?), twin-engine swept-wing jet, pink plastic tail fin, white/blue body, red/yellow/blue wings.
Boeing 707 and KC-135:
3 7/8" WS, 4 cylindrical tin jet pods, silver, red stripe on body, red leading edges, yellow and red stripes on fin, USAF KC-135 (same as Line Mar DC-8)
3 7/8" WS, flat engines on wing leading edges, silver, red stripe on body, red leading edges, yellow and red stripes on fin, USAF KC-135.
5 1/4" WS, green and red Alitalia see also Ichimura.
5 1/4" WS, no underside, silver overall, dark blue and red trim, “American Air Lines AAL-7.”
5 1/4" WS, silver/white, medium blue Pan American markings.
5 1/4" WS, red/white TWA, N743TW in dark blue on silver wings, red plastic tail fin.
5 1/4" WS, silver overall, yellow cheat line, dark blue and red trim, USAF KC-135 “Boeing 707” on tail fin.
5 1/4" WS, gold/white, red/blue wings, yellow trim, yellow plastic tail, American Airlines 1987.
5 1/4" WS, gold/white, yellow/red wings, blue trim, red plastic tail, Pan American 1987.
5 1/4" WS, gold/white, blue/yellow wings, red trim, red plastic tail, Trans-World TWA 1987.
5 1/4" WS, multicolored Pokémon character graphics and titles, 2000s.
Boeing 727, 6 ½” WS, 7 ½” L:
American, white fuselage, red cheat line, silver tail fin, blue/silver/yellow wings, “AA” logo in circle on tail and wing.
Pan American, silver/white with blue markings and red trim.
TWA, chrome silver, red markings with golden globe symbol on wing, red tail fin with white letters, light blue wing leading edges.
Also in plastic with tinplate upper portions.
Boeing 727, Lucky Toy header bag packaging, blue plastic, red/yellow tin inlays with TWA markings and golden globes logo. Suspected.
Boeing 737, 3 1/8" WS, metal or white plastic fin, white body, blue/red cheat lines, blue/red wings with "Boeing 737" titles.
Boeing 737, 3 1/8" WS, red plastic tail fin, white body with dark blue cheat line, white wings with red bands.
Boeing 737, 3 1/8" WS, green plastic tail fin, white/green body, green/yellow wings with red engines, “Sky Liners” titles.
Boeing 747, all tin, no plastic, silver/white/blue, Pan Am 1725.
Boeing 747, yellow plastic tail fin, white/yellow/red/blue fuselage, green/yellow/red/blue wings.
Boeing 747, 6 1/2" WS, plastic friction motor housing, yellow plastic tail fin with molded "No 555," silver/white, bright blue cheat line, pale blue wing leading edges, red shaped engine nacelles at wing leading edges, Pan Am Jumbo.
Boeing 747, 6 1/2" WS, 7" L, plastic friction motor housing, red plastic tail fin with molded "No 688," flat engines part of wings, TWA, white fuselage with red cheat line, blue leading edges on silver wings and stabilizers, Jumbo on rear fuselage, 1758 on wing.
Boeing 747, 7" WS, plastic friction motor housing, red plastic with molded "B 747” on tail fin; white tin plate inlays on upper fuselage, wings and stabilizers; red cheat line, blue “British airways Jumbo” titles on fuselage; “British” in red on port wing, white Speedbird logo in blue circle on starboard wing.
Comet 4, 4" WS, wings with engines near body and leading edge tanks, silver with dark and light blue markings, BOAC DHC-8 titles in red.
Convair 990, 3 1/8" WS, red/blue wings with four fairings aft, blue cheat line, "990" in blue circle on tail fin, "General Dynamics American Airlines" titles:
-Silver lower fuselage, tinplate tail fin
-As above, plain red plastic tail fin.
-Yellow lower fuselage
Delta-Wing Jetliner, 6" L, wings rounded in front and square in back with inserted blue/red/yellow pinwheels:
Red/silver with yellow stripe on body and yellow and red markings on tail fin, dark blue USAF markings, "HB-2" on one side of body.
Red plastic tail fin, gold with red and bright blue details, red cheat line, "Tina Airlines" titles, "WA N354" on wings.
Red plastic tail fin, white upper fuselage, red/yellow/blue, "World Airlines" N354.
Red plastic tail fin, white plastic underparts, blue upper fuselage, red cheat line, "World Jet Lines" titles, yellow/blue/dark green wings with "JX 37" in red, see also HC-Hip Cheong brand (made in Hong Kong) # 203.
Douglas DC-9, 3" WS, red/white/blue with "TWA Douglas DC-9" titles.
Four-engine Jet, 4" WS, lithographed engines on wing near body like Comet:
Silver with dark blue and red “American Air Lines” markings, “AAL-7.”
Silver/white with dark blue, red and yellow Pan American markings, "PANAM DC-8" on wings.
Silver/white with red, dark and light blue TWA markings.
Four-engine Jet/DeHavilland Comet, 5” WS, 707 fuselage and tail fin, shaped engines on wing near body like Comet:
Air France, silver/white with blue Air France markings.
AA, silver with dark blue and red “American Air Lines” markings, “AAL-7.”
BOAC, pale silvery-blue with dark blue and red BOAC markings, “DHC-8.”
Swissair, white crown, blue engines and trailing edges on wings, “Swiss Air” titles, “Coronado” on tail fin, HB-IBK (N.B.: the real Coronado was a Convair 990).(Suspected).
Four-engine Jet, flat engines at wing leading edges, short round nose:
-Dark green, red details, Army on wing in yellow.
Four-engine Jet, flat engines at wing leading edges, long nose, swept tail fin:
4 1/8" WS, dark green with red tips of wings and tail surfaces, yellow Army titles.
4 1/8" WS, silver with blue/red details, BOAC “DHC-8" titles, "Comet" on tail.
4 1/8" WS, “TK” trademark, beige with green camouflage, red "engines," US Air Force, 15723 on tail fin.
4 1/2" WS, white upper fuselage and underside, silver wings, red/medium blue markings, "MCDONNELL 220" in red with registration N220N.
4 1/2" WS, green overall, red markings, "Army B-12."
4 1/2" WS, silver with red/black markings, "US AIR FORCE," "36" on tail fin.
Also silver/white in American, Pan American, TWA colors; see also Ichimura.
Lockheed 1011 TriStar, yellow/white/red, blue "World Air Bus" fuselage titles, "WAB" on tail fin.
1989 issue plastic jet liners with tin upper fuselages:
Boeing 707, 3” WS, Lufthansa, red with blue or green tail fin.
Boeing 727, 3” WS
-British airways, red with yellow tail, white fuselage has blue cheat line.
-TWA, blue with red tails, tin wing inlays, twin globe logo.
-TWA, blue with red tail or red with dark blue tail.
Boeing 737, 3” WS, British airways, blue with yellow tail fin.
Boeing 747, 3” WS
-Northwest Orient, blue with red fin, white fuselage with red lettering, green/yellow tin wing inlays.
-Pan Am, yellow with red tail fin.
Douglas DC-10, 3” WS
-American Airlines, off-white with yellow fin.
-American Airlines, purple with yellow fin, red/blue tin wing inlays.
-Christmas Special, red with white upper body, green cheat line and wing inlays, Kurt Adler Co. Santa logo atop fuselage.
-Lufthansa, red with yellow fin, green/yellow wings, white fuselage with blue cheat line.
-Lufthansa, red plastic fin, blue plastic lower parts, lithographed tin parts as above.
Twin-engine Jet, dramatic swept wings with 2 jets, blue plastic tail fin, red/light blue, BOAC DHC-8.
Fighters:
Biplane-SPAD SXIII, 4 3/4" WS, plastic, spinning 3-bladed prop, plastic with tin upper wing inlay and upper fuselage, in the following color schemes, 1990:
Blue plastic, blue/white camouflage pattern with yellow/red titles.
Red plastic, red/white chequered pattern, N-5477.
Yellow plastic, yellow/red sunburst pattern on upper wing, yellow/red fuselage stripes, N-2050.
F-51 Airplane, 4" WS, metal 4-bladed prop, blue, red details, "USAF" in yellow on wing.
Straight-winged Fighter, black/red, red arrow on upper fuselage, "Navy" "CZ."
Fighters, Jet:
Convair F-106, 3 3/4" L, two flat protruding wing tanks, silver/red, US Air Force # 4477, unusual.
-Yellow plastic tail fin.
Convair XF-92A, 4 1/2" WS, friction, royal blue with red plastic spark window on fuselage, red leading edges, 6682 on tail fin (Suspected).
Delta-Wing Jet, 3 5/8” WS, thin wheels, red body, squared-off fin, light blue delta wings with red trim, "F-107."
Delta-Wing Jet, 3 5/8" WS, earlier issue with proportionately shorter fuselage, thin wheels, aqua body, red tail fin with "0327," red wings, USAF.
Delta-Wing Jet, 3 5/8" WS, later issue with proportionately longer fuselage, aqua body, solid red tail fin, red wings, USAF.
McDonnell F4 Phantom (?), Lucky Toy header bag packaging, blue plastic, black/blue/red/yellow/white tin inlays, Navy 24-144.Suspected.
Straight-wing Jet, 4 1/2” WS, unpowered, aqua/red wings, red body with aqua upper fuselage, "F-50." (“PAT P” on tail fin – unusual)
Straight-wing Jet, 4 1/2” WS, unpowered, aqua wings and body, red/white stripe markings, 2 pilots in windows and "ray guns" on wings, “F-102.”
Straight-wing Jet, 4" WS, bright green, yellow/red wings, red fin, "0729."
Straight-wing Jet, 4” WS, dark green/yellow with red nose, wingtip tanks, gold bottom, Army.
Straight-wing Jet #Y-17, wingtip tanks, blue plastic tail fin, red/white/yellow/blue.
Straight-wing Jet, blue wings with wingtip fuel tanks; blue plastic lower fuselage and stabilizers; yellow plastic tail fin; red/white/yellow/dark green tin upper fuselage, Army. Packaged in boxed set labeled "Assorted Air plane" with BOAC 737, Lufthansa 707, Pan Am 747, and TWA 727, circa 1990.
Swept-wing Jet, 4" WS, black with red details, Navy 1820.
Swept-wing Jet, 4" WS, bright green with red markings, USAF.
Swept-wing Jet, bright orange plastic tail fin, white/red/yellow green fuselage, blue/yellow/red wings.
Swept-wing Jet, dramatic swept plastic wings, yellow, with 2 molded jet engines; red plastic tail fin; yellow plastic lower parts and stabilizers; blue tin fuselage with red nose, Navy. Packaged in boxed set labeled "Assorted Air plane" with BOAC 737, Lufthansa 707, Pan Am 747, and TWA 727, circa 1990.
Vought F7U-3 Cutlass, 4 1/4" WS, 4" long, friction, pale green/dark blue with red markings on wings, red/yellow chequer pattern on tail fins, 420 on tail fins in white (Suspected-trademark visible with description "letters or numbers in a diamond shape")
X-15 (See under "TK" ), 4 1/8" L, short straight wings and small tail fin, silver, red trim and USAF markings, no trademark. This toy is probably based on a French Trident, with wingtip jets, and came packaged in a box marked "TK" with other small planes.
Light Aircraft:
Cessna, high wing, 7" WS, in the following color schemes:
Blue plastic with metal upper insets, red plastic prop and tail fin, yellow with red/blue markings, “Heron Cessna” on wings, N9124M.
Blue plastic with metal upper insets, yellow plastic prop and tail fin, blue with yellow stripes, "Dove Cessna" on wings, N9246M.
Yellow plastic with metal upper insets, blue plastic prop, yellow with red/blue markings, “Heron Cessna” on wings, N9124M.
Ryan Navion (?), 3 3/4" WS, white/red, diagonal stripes on wings, wingtip tanks, N517.
T-33A Straight-Wing Jet, 5 1/4" WS:
-Silver/red, yellow wing tanks, Navy
-Black/red, Navy T-33A.
-Blue plastic fin, yellow, red/white/medium blue markings, people in windows, white "Air Queen" titles, "S176T” on wings.
-Purple plastic fin, blue, white crown, red stripes, people in windows, "Sky Lines" titles, "S175T” on wings, yellow wing tip tanks.
-Yellow plastic fin, people in windows, red/white with yellow and blue trim, S-177.
Twin-Engine Airplane, 4" WS, "TK" trademark, silver, red and black markings, "Cessna N6350A."
Twin-Engine Airplane, 4" WS, bright blue with red details, Navy.
Twin-Engine Airplane, 4" WS, bright blue, yellow wing leading edges, red/white tail trailing edges, yellow "Navy" titles, yellow "9" on tail fin.
Twin-Engine Airplane, 4" WS, black fuselage, red wings, Navy.
Twin-Engine Airplane, 4" WS, silver, red/yellow details, USAF.
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S Brands, Part 2
by Tone » Sun May 01, 2011 6:06 pm
SANEI - AAA Trademark
Sanei made a few small friction toy airplanes. The DC-7 is not a scale model. There is a boxed set of three small airplanes with pilot wings. Two of the planes are identical to those marked “K” in a diamond: a red/black F-104 and a United airliner with swept wings. The third plane is a Douglas Sky Rocket.
Airliner:
DC-7, 7" WS, friction, three-bladed metal props, dark blue lower fuselage, bright white upper fuselage, dark blue cheat line and wing sections, red trim on body and control surfaces, "Douglas Seven Seas" titles with registration N7DC.
Fighters, Jet:
Douglas Sky Rocket, silver with red upper fuselage, plastic needle nose, black anti-glare, yellow leading edges, red/blue USAF markings.
F-105A, 10" L, 6"WS, friction, plastic needle nose, non-prototypical, swept wings, red plastic window on upper rear fuselage, silvery-blue, dark blue/red/yellow markings, US Air Force, 25699 on tail fin.
Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, 9 1/2" L, silver, FG-568.
Lockheed XF-104 Starfighter, 11 1/4" L, silver, FB-668.
SANESU (or SHIOJI?)
Trademark was "SSS" under three triangles symbolizing mountain peaks.
Fighter, Jet:
Grumman F11F Tiger, 4 1/2? WS, friction, blue with red wingtips, Marines.
Grumman F11F Tiger, 4 1/2" WS, friction, dark green, Army.
Grumman F11F Tiger, 4 1/2" WS, friction, silver with red markings, Navy.
Grumman F11F Tiger, 4 1/2" WS, friction, silver with red markings, USAF.
SANKEI OKUMA
Sankei Okuma had a trademark that was a K inside three concentric circles broken into four arcs, almost like a propeller. This brand's most famous toy airplane is "Hold A Wing" (as opposed to fold-a-wing), a Grumman Cougar jet with folding wings.
Fighters, Jet:
Grumman F9F-8 Cougar, 11" WS, folding wings:
-Battery remote control, silver, red details.
-Battery, silver, red details.
-Battery, silver, red wings.
-Battery, white, red details.
-Battery, light metallic blue, red details.
-Battery, orange-red with black markings.
Helicopters:
Sikorsky S-51, wind-up, 3-bladed metal main rotor, clear canopy with visible interior, yellow/light blue, pilot wings on side, USAF with wings and red Air Force titles.
Sikorsky S-62, 9 1/2" L, battery, more closely resembles S-55/H-19, round battery box on side, 3-bladed metal main rotor, white/red/blue.
SATO
Trademark is a hollow T with a hollow C below, and Y inside. The Japanese-made Caravelle is based on the tooling Arnold used (see), with different wheels.
Airliner, Jet:
SE-210 Caravelle, 14 ½” WS, friction, 6 cutaways on upper fuselage with plastic windows, silver/white, dark blue and red markings, SAS-Scandinavian Airlines System.
SCHABAK
The German firm Schabak has produced die cast airliner models since the 1970s. In 1990 Schabak also produced a tin and plastic Boeing 747 in a variety of airline liveries including Iraqi. The tooling was formerly used by Masudaya and Schuco (both see).
SCHUCO Schreyer & Co.
This famous German firm made one of the best-known aviation toys of all time: a large Vickers Viscount 800 Series that it named the Schuco Radiant 5600, and these titles are emblazoned on the starboard wing. The sturdy battery toy came fully assembled in a large box. Its plastic propellers start one at a time, rev together, and then the plane moves along the floor; one can set the propellers to run continuously. Schuco provided a removable remote-control steering unit and a tinplate tanker truck as accessories. Two pilot figurines made of molded and painted composition material sit under a plastic canopy. In production at least by the late 1950s, the Radiant 5600 continued throughout the 1960s and re-entered production in 2005. In 1967, Tomiyama (see) produced a Viscount of similar size and shape with a higher degree of plastic components. In the 1970s, Schuco introduced toys that were fine scale models of the 707, 737 and 747, with molded plastic bodies and wings and tinplate upper fuselages, in various airline liveries.
Airliners:
Schuco Radiant 5600, Vickers Viscount 800 Series, 19 1/2” WS, battery, plastic engine nacelles, silver/off-white in the following airline liveries:
Air France – modified from Lufthansa (see below), all white tail fin.
BOAC British Overseas Airways Corporation, dark blue cheat line with gold trim, white tail fin with speed bird logo.
Hong Kong Airways – modified from BOAC.
KLM-Royal Dutch Airlines – dark aqua blue cheat line with “De Vliegende Hollander” titles on one side of the fuselage and “The Flying Dutchman” on the other.
Lufthansa – royal blue cheat line with gold trim, italicized capitalized titles.
Pan American – medium blue cheat line and tail fin, white globe on tail fin, black titles.
SABENA – aqua blue cheat line and tail fin, white “S” on aqua tail fin.
Swissair – red cheat line, red tail fin with white Swiss cross, blue titles.
Airliners, Jet:
Boeing 707, grey plastic wings and lower fuselage, tinplate upper fuselage, with blue Lufthansa or orange-yellow and blue Condor markings (German charter airline).
Boeing 737, grey plastic wings and lower fuselage, tinplate upper fuselage.
Boeing 747 #1025, 9” WS, wind-up, detailed undercarriage, grey plastic wings and lower fuselage, tinplate upper fuselage:
Air France, white with dark blue markings.
Alitalia, white with bright green and red markings.
BOAC, white with dark blue markings.
Braniff International, silver wings, orange with white markings, stylized orange “BI” on white tail fin.
British airways, white with dark blue/red markings.
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, white with aqua and blue markings.
Lufthansa, white with blue markings.
QANTAS, orange cheat line and titles, white kangaroo on red tail fin.
Peter Stuyvesant Line, white overall, red cheat line, all capital blue titles, decal “PST” on globe on tail fin.
SAA/SAL-South African (Suidafrikaans Lugdiens), dark blue cheat line, orange tail fin, springbok antelope logo.
Swissair, white with red markings.
Boeing 747, as above, opening cargo nose:
Air France, white with dark blue markings.
Alitalia, white with bright green and red markings.
Japan Air Lines, white with dark blue and red markings, red tsuru logo on white tail fin, “JAL Cargo.”
SCHYLLING
Schylling of Salem, Massachusetts has imported tin toy “collectibles” since the 1980s. All are sold in boxes that are clearly marked as “adult collectibles.” One set of Christmas tree decorations included a Dornier Seaplane, a Zeppelin, a generic biplane, and the Ryan NYP Spirit of St Louis, all made in China, but previously available from a German firm with a “ZZ” trademark. Other Schylling aviation “collectible” products are several variants of a wind-up Zeppelin based on a 1920s Marx mold and an original Douglas DC-3. Though these products resemble old tin toys, they were all intended to be decorative objects.
SHAN / ALEXANDER TARON
Alexander Taron is a 2000s distributor of modern tin toys made in China by a manufacturer identified as SHAN and "recommended for the adult collector." There are at least four aviation toys: the Dornier Wal Seaplane identical to the Schylling and "ZZ" brand Christmas ornaments; a looping biplane; a dark green biplane; and a single-rotor helicopter.
SHI SHI, see MIYAZAWA
SHIN HOUNG
There is an unusual, out-of-scale Fairchild C-119 Packet (Flying Boxcar), made in Korea, marked with this brand name. The two engine nacelles are almost as large as the fuselage, and the wings are stubby. It is friction-powered and fitted with plastic propellers.
Airliner:
Fairchild C-119, wind-up, two three-bladed plastic props, silver overall, pilots lithographed in cockpit windows, "Eagle" titles on fuselage, red cheat lines, blue pin stripes, black diamond design pattern under wings, USAF.
SHINWA
In the 1980s Japan’s Shinwa issued plastic toy aircraft with tin inlays or insets, similar to Kashiwai product. The Grumman Hawkeye is an unusual choice and the addition of a roulette wheel makes the toy surrealistic. Both friction and wind-up motors were fitted to the toys. The trademark is a stylized, angular letter "S" similar to that of Suzuki Motors.
Helicopters:
VT-107, wind-up, 5" L: front plastic rotor made of two two-bladed yellow plastic pieces, as ND Toys (see); rear rotor is tin, two-bladed, as Jimmy Toys (see).
Blue/white tinplate upper fuselage, blue plastic lower fuselage, "Police Patrol."
Red/white tinplate upper fuselage, white plastic lower fuselage, "Airport Service."
Yellow tinplate upper fuselage, red plastic lower fuselage, "Sightseeing."
Light Aircraft:
Cessna 172, wind-up, 5" wingspan, plastic 2-bladed prop:
Blue plastic, blue tinplate inset with red/yellow markings, N5718Y.
Green plastic, green tinplate inset with red/yellow markings, N6987S.
Yellow plastic, yellow tinplate inset with red/blue markings, N2365K.
Low Wing, 5” WS, green plastic, wingtip fuel tanks, red 3-bladed prop, yellow tail fin, red/white/blue tinplate inset, N3431T.
Low Wing, 5” WS, bright orange-red plastic, wingtip fuel tanks, no prop, dark green/yellow/red inset, lithographed passengers, N4287S.
Military Observation Aircraft:
Grumman E2 Hawkeye, 6 1/2" WS, friction, plastic 4-bladed props, blue plastic, roulette wheel atop fuselage, white/yellow/red/blue tin insets, "E2C Hawkeye" on wings, red bird's head graphics, yellow "Hawkeye" titles.
Grumman E2 Hawkeye, 6 1/2" WS, friction, plastic 4-bladed props, green plastic, roulette wheel atop fuselage, white/yellow/red/blue tin insets, "E2C Hawkeye" on wings, red bird's head graphics, yellow "Hawkeye" titles.
SHOWA
This trademark appears on some early toy airplanes made in the 1950s. They also have the Toys Nomura "TN" symbol. The toys are listed under Nikko Gangu-Toys Nomura.
SIRO FERRARI CASALPUSTERLENGO - SFC
Casalpusterlengo is the city in which this firm, and Alemanni (LAC), both were based. Mark Driver notes that this Italian brand made at least one tin toy helicopter. A catalogue posted at the web site Leotoys, http://www.leotoys.net, shows five single-prop airplanes of various sizes.
Fighters:
#9 Twin engine airplane (Heinkel He-111), 6 ¼” WS, unpowered, metal wheels, WWII Italian insignia, red or silver.
McDonnell F4 Phantom, 13 ¾” L, 11” WS, friction, scale model, silver/pale blue rectangles with red details (Similar to or same as Masudaya toy).
Helicopters:
Single rotor, F-12, 6 3/4" L, four-bladed metal main rotor, no tail rotor, yellow/red/blue, lithographed passengers in windows.
Twin-rotor.
Light Aircraft:
#8 Medium airplane, 4 1/3” WS, unpowered, two-bladed prop, two tail fins, metal wheels.
#53 Trimotor airplane, 4 1/3” WS, unpowered, three-bladed props, metal wheels.
#71 Small airplane, 2 ¾” WS, unpowered, flat tail (i.e. no tail fin), raised cockpit, two-bladed spinning prop, metal wheels, white with bright green and red markings, "Casalpust" on fuselage.
#112 Constructor kit single-engine low wing monoplane, 9 ½” WS, wind-up, two-bladed metal prop, cream/red, "H3" on wings.
SON AI TOY
In 1990, a battery-operated F-14 Tomcat appeared in toy shops. The toy is identical to the 1970s Nikko Gangu release, and it even has the N-G-K trademark as part of the lithography. Underneath the plastic motor housing is molded the name "Son Ai Toy" identifying Taiwan as the country of origin.
Fighter, Jet:
Grumman F-14 Tomcat, 13" L, battery, silver overall with red diamonds along upper fuselage, grey plastic undersides and moving wings, transparent red engines, raising blue plastic canopy with two pilot figurines, yellow/red nose, "NE" on red/yellow/grey tail, "220963" on aft fuselage, "303NL" sticker on wing, Navy markings.
STRACO
Straco, or Strauss Co., is the name of a US-based toy distributor. It is not a manufacturer.
SUDA(?)-SK trademark
The stylized letters “SK” are surrounded by three concentric circles divided into three groups of arcs. See also Hishimo, HTC.
Airliner, Jet:
Douglas DC-8, 13 ¼” WS:
Battery remote control, metal jet pods with lighted green and red plastic intakes, silver/off-white, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, double aquamarine/blue cheat lines and diagonal tail stripes, red titles, “PH-DCJ” in red on each wing.
#4822, friction, switch on right lower forward fuselage for battery lights, red and green plastic intakes on tin jet engines, silver/white with red and blue markings, SAS-Scandinavian Airlines System "Royal Viking." HTC trademark on box also.
Friction, metal jet pods, Pan American, silver/off-white, blue markings, white globe symbol on blue tail fin, “Clipper Meteor,” N8000PA.
SUZUKI (SSS INTERNATIONAL); SUZUKI AND EDWARD (S & E)
The trademark “S & E” replaced the earlier Suzuki “SSS” superimposed on a globe with grid lines. S & E issued some interesting toy airplanes in the 1960s. While the Curtiss Jennies are accurate scale models, the Bristol Bulldog is not. S & E also issued a remote-control toy model of the true DC-7 airliner.
Airliners:
Douglas DC-6, 13" WS, three-bladed plastic props, steering tail wheel strut, Pan American World Airways, battery remote control, silver with blue markings similar to those of United version, N31225 (Same as LineMar Toys).
Douglas DC-7, 9 1/2” WS, friction, lever-action, four red 4-bladed metal props, silver/white, dark blue Pan American markings, N10317, three tin wheels.
Douglas DC-7, 14 3/4" WS, battery, remote control, 4 white plastic props, red plastic transparent cowlings, green or red remote control box, turning nose wheel strut, silver overall, red/blue American Airlines N310AA livery with straight (i.e., no zig-zag) cheat line.
-Pan American World Airways, silver/blue with pale blue 1950s color scheme.
Fighters:
Biplane, 14 1/2” WS, battery, lighted machine gun, tin radial engine cylinders, red with 1930s US star-in-circle insignia.
Bristol Bulldog, 14 1/2" WS, battery, parasol monoplane but should be a biplane:
Machine gun, plastic prop, tin pilot, lithographed tin radial engine, off-white/red, sunburst pattern on wing, black/red lightning bolt on fuselage, N351R in black.
Lighted engine, brown plastic prop, red pilot in open cockpit, yellow overall, red markings, RAF insignia, "T-360," "Straco" on box (a US toy importer Strauss Co.).
Plastic prop, tin pilot head in open cockpit, light blue, black cowling, red/white striped rudder, red fuselage band, NF-125.
Plastic prop, plastic pistons, red wing, white/red body, "E-AAVE" "A-602."
Plastic prop, red/black with large yellow-orange hawk design on fuselage, black Skyhawk titles.
Sky Bolt # 1471-6, 8" WS, friction with lever action, white plastic 2-blade prop, similar tooling as "KA" toys US Air Fighter and Beechcraft (see) except with stock under rear fuselage, no wheels, fires two plastic rockets from under wings, red and white, N3843A, sold through Cragstan Industries and Nipon Goraku Shokai (NGS)
WWII Fighter Flight Simulator, silver, forward fuselage with stubby wings, radial engine, prop, machine gun in front of windscreen, detailed control panel.
Helicopter:
Kaman H43, 10 1/2" L, battery remote control, 2 intermeshing 2-bladed rotors, silver, red markings.
Light Aircraft:
Curtiss JN-4 Jenny, 9 1/2" WS, friction, white plastic 2-bladed prop, bright red overall, dark red under wings, two pilots, lithographed machine gun, "NX-211" on wing in black
Curtiss JN4D Jenny, 14" WS, friction, brown plastic 2-bladed prop, black radial engine (incorrect for a Jenny), two pilot heads, red/yellow, 1930s star-in-circle US insignia, S-1961 and "Curtiss" on tail fin.
Curtiss JN4D Jenny, 14" WS, friction, red plastic 2-bladed prop, black radial engine (incorrect for a Jenny) and machine gun, yellow with red/white/blue control surfaces, two pilot heads, "HK 47" on upper wing.
Curtiss JN4D Jenny, 14" WS, friction, grey plastic 2-bladed prop, orange-red, dark red under wings, two yellow pilot heads, NX-386 on bottom wing in white.
High-wing parasol monoplane Blue Bird, 14" WS, friction, two tin pontoons, pilot heads, medium blue wings with red control surfaces, red/white/blue fuselage, "Blue Bird" on wing, R-753.
High-wing parasol monoplane Friend F-107, friction, two tin pontoons, silver/red, lightning bolt with pilot wings lithographed on fuselage, "Friend F-107" on wings.
Sanei made a few small friction toy airplanes. The DC-7 is not a scale model. There is a boxed set of three small airplanes with pilot wings. Two of the planes are identical to those marked “K” in a diamond: a red/black F-104 and a United airliner with swept wings. The third plane is a Douglas Sky Rocket.
Airliner:
DC-7, 7" WS, friction, three-bladed metal props, dark blue lower fuselage, bright white upper fuselage, dark blue cheat line and wing sections, red trim on body and control surfaces, "Douglas Seven Seas" titles with registration N7DC.
Fighters, Jet:
Douglas Sky Rocket, silver with red upper fuselage, plastic needle nose, black anti-glare, yellow leading edges, red/blue USAF markings.
F-105A, 10" L, 6"WS, friction, plastic needle nose, non-prototypical, swept wings, red plastic window on upper rear fuselage, silvery-blue, dark blue/red/yellow markings, US Air Force, 25699 on tail fin.
Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, 9 1/2" L, silver, FG-568.
Lockheed XF-104 Starfighter, 11 1/4" L, silver, FB-668.
SANESU (or SHIOJI?)
Trademark was "SSS" under three triangles symbolizing mountain peaks.
Fighter, Jet:
Grumman F11F Tiger, 4 1/2? WS, friction, blue with red wingtips, Marines.
Grumman F11F Tiger, 4 1/2" WS, friction, dark green, Army.
Grumman F11F Tiger, 4 1/2" WS, friction, silver with red markings, Navy.
Grumman F11F Tiger, 4 1/2" WS, friction, silver with red markings, USAF.
SANKEI OKUMA
Sankei Okuma had a trademark that was a K inside three concentric circles broken into four arcs, almost like a propeller. This brand's most famous toy airplane is "Hold A Wing" (as opposed to fold-a-wing), a Grumman Cougar jet with folding wings.
Fighters, Jet:
Grumman F9F-8 Cougar, 11" WS, folding wings:
-Battery remote control, silver, red details.
-Battery, silver, red details.
-Battery, silver, red wings.
-Battery, white, red details.
-Battery, light metallic blue, red details.
-Battery, orange-red with black markings.
Helicopters:
Sikorsky S-51, wind-up, 3-bladed metal main rotor, clear canopy with visible interior, yellow/light blue, pilot wings on side, USAF with wings and red Air Force titles.
Sikorsky S-62, 9 1/2" L, battery, more closely resembles S-55/H-19, round battery box on side, 3-bladed metal main rotor, white/red/blue.
SATO
Trademark is a hollow T with a hollow C below, and Y inside. The Japanese-made Caravelle is based on the tooling Arnold used (see), with different wheels.
Airliner, Jet:
SE-210 Caravelle, 14 ½” WS, friction, 6 cutaways on upper fuselage with plastic windows, silver/white, dark blue and red markings, SAS-Scandinavian Airlines System.
SCHABAK
The German firm Schabak has produced die cast airliner models since the 1970s. In 1990 Schabak also produced a tin and plastic Boeing 747 in a variety of airline liveries including Iraqi. The tooling was formerly used by Masudaya and Schuco (both see).
SCHUCO Schreyer & Co.
This famous German firm made one of the best-known aviation toys of all time: a large Vickers Viscount 800 Series that it named the Schuco Radiant 5600, and these titles are emblazoned on the starboard wing. The sturdy battery toy came fully assembled in a large box. Its plastic propellers start one at a time, rev together, and then the plane moves along the floor; one can set the propellers to run continuously. Schuco provided a removable remote-control steering unit and a tinplate tanker truck as accessories. Two pilot figurines made of molded and painted composition material sit under a plastic canopy. In production at least by the late 1950s, the Radiant 5600 continued throughout the 1960s and re-entered production in 2005. In 1967, Tomiyama (see) produced a Viscount of similar size and shape with a higher degree of plastic components. In the 1970s, Schuco introduced toys that were fine scale models of the 707, 737 and 747, with molded plastic bodies and wings and tinplate upper fuselages, in various airline liveries.
Airliners:
Schuco Radiant 5600, Vickers Viscount 800 Series, 19 1/2” WS, battery, plastic engine nacelles, silver/off-white in the following airline liveries:
Air France – modified from Lufthansa (see below), all white tail fin.
BOAC British Overseas Airways Corporation, dark blue cheat line with gold trim, white tail fin with speed bird logo.
Hong Kong Airways – modified from BOAC.
KLM-Royal Dutch Airlines – dark aqua blue cheat line with “De Vliegende Hollander” titles on one side of the fuselage and “The Flying Dutchman” on the other.
Lufthansa – royal blue cheat line with gold trim, italicized capitalized titles.
Pan American – medium blue cheat line and tail fin, white globe on tail fin, black titles.
SABENA – aqua blue cheat line and tail fin, white “S” on aqua tail fin.
Swissair – red cheat line, red tail fin with white Swiss cross, blue titles.
Airliners, Jet:
Boeing 707, grey plastic wings and lower fuselage, tinplate upper fuselage, with blue Lufthansa or orange-yellow and blue Condor markings (German charter airline).
Boeing 737, grey plastic wings and lower fuselage, tinplate upper fuselage.
Boeing 747 #1025, 9” WS, wind-up, detailed undercarriage, grey plastic wings and lower fuselage, tinplate upper fuselage:
Air France, white with dark blue markings.
Alitalia, white with bright green and red markings.
BOAC, white with dark blue markings.
Braniff International, silver wings, orange with white markings, stylized orange “BI” on white tail fin.
British airways, white with dark blue/red markings.
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, white with aqua and blue markings.
Lufthansa, white with blue markings.
QANTAS, orange cheat line and titles, white kangaroo on red tail fin.
Peter Stuyvesant Line, white overall, red cheat line, all capital blue titles, decal “PST” on globe on tail fin.
SAA/SAL-South African (Suidafrikaans Lugdiens), dark blue cheat line, orange tail fin, springbok antelope logo.
Swissair, white with red markings.
Boeing 747, as above, opening cargo nose:
Air France, white with dark blue markings.
Alitalia, white with bright green and red markings.
Japan Air Lines, white with dark blue and red markings, red tsuru logo on white tail fin, “JAL Cargo.”
SCHYLLING
Schylling of Salem, Massachusetts has imported tin toy “collectibles” since the 1980s. All are sold in boxes that are clearly marked as “adult collectibles.” One set of Christmas tree decorations included a Dornier Seaplane, a Zeppelin, a generic biplane, and the Ryan NYP Spirit of St Louis, all made in China, but previously available from a German firm with a “ZZ” trademark. Other Schylling aviation “collectible” products are several variants of a wind-up Zeppelin based on a 1920s Marx mold and an original Douglas DC-3. Though these products resemble old tin toys, they were all intended to be decorative objects.
SHAN / ALEXANDER TARON
Alexander Taron is a 2000s distributor of modern tin toys made in China by a manufacturer identified as SHAN and "recommended for the adult collector." There are at least four aviation toys: the Dornier Wal Seaplane identical to the Schylling and "ZZ" brand Christmas ornaments; a looping biplane; a dark green biplane; and a single-rotor helicopter.
SHI SHI, see MIYAZAWA
SHIN HOUNG
There is an unusual, out-of-scale Fairchild C-119 Packet (Flying Boxcar), made in Korea, marked with this brand name. The two engine nacelles are almost as large as the fuselage, and the wings are stubby. It is friction-powered and fitted with plastic propellers.
Airliner:
Fairchild C-119, wind-up, two three-bladed plastic props, silver overall, pilots lithographed in cockpit windows, "Eagle" titles on fuselage, red cheat lines, blue pin stripes, black diamond design pattern under wings, USAF.
SHINWA
In the 1980s Japan’s Shinwa issued plastic toy aircraft with tin inlays or insets, similar to Kashiwai product. The Grumman Hawkeye is an unusual choice and the addition of a roulette wheel makes the toy surrealistic. Both friction and wind-up motors were fitted to the toys. The trademark is a stylized, angular letter "S" similar to that of Suzuki Motors.
Helicopters:
VT-107, wind-up, 5" L: front plastic rotor made of two two-bladed yellow plastic pieces, as ND Toys (see); rear rotor is tin, two-bladed, as Jimmy Toys (see).
Blue/white tinplate upper fuselage, blue plastic lower fuselage, "Police Patrol."
Red/white tinplate upper fuselage, white plastic lower fuselage, "Airport Service."
Yellow tinplate upper fuselage, red plastic lower fuselage, "Sightseeing."
Light Aircraft:
Cessna 172, wind-up, 5" wingspan, plastic 2-bladed prop:
Blue plastic, blue tinplate inset with red/yellow markings, N5718Y.
Green plastic, green tinplate inset with red/yellow markings, N6987S.
Yellow plastic, yellow tinplate inset with red/blue markings, N2365K.
Low Wing, 5” WS, green plastic, wingtip fuel tanks, red 3-bladed prop, yellow tail fin, red/white/blue tinplate inset, N3431T.
Low Wing, 5” WS, bright orange-red plastic, wingtip fuel tanks, no prop, dark green/yellow/red inset, lithographed passengers, N4287S.
Military Observation Aircraft:
Grumman E2 Hawkeye, 6 1/2" WS, friction, plastic 4-bladed props, blue plastic, roulette wheel atop fuselage, white/yellow/red/blue tin insets, "E2C Hawkeye" on wings, red bird's head graphics, yellow "Hawkeye" titles.
Grumman E2 Hawkeye, 6 1/2" WS, friction, plastic 4-bladed props, green plastic, roulette wheel atop fuselage, white/yellow/red/blue tin insets, "E2C Hawkeye" on wings, red bird's head graphics, yellow "Hawkeye" titles.
SHOWA
This trademark appears on some early toy airplanes made in the 1950s. They also have the Toys Nomura "TN" symbol. The toys are listed under Nikko Gangu-Toys Nomura.
SIRO FERRARI CASALPUSTERLENGO - SFC
Casalpusterlengo is the city in which this firm, and Alemanni (LAC), both were based. Mark Driver notes that this Italian brand made at least one tin toy helicopter. A catalogue posted at the web site Leotoys, http://www.leotoys.net, shows five single-prop airplanes of various sizes.
Fighters:
#9 Twin engine airplane (Heinkel He-111), 6 ¼” WS, unpowered, metal wheels, WWII Italian insignia, red or silver.
McDonnell F4 Phantom, 13 ¾” L, 11” WS, friction, scale model, silver/pale blue rectangles with red details (Similar to or same as Masudaya toy).
Helicopters:
Single rotor, F-12, 6 3/4" L, four-bladed metal main rotor, no tail rotor, yellow/red/blue, lithographed passengers in windows.
Twin-rotor.
Light Aircraft:
#8 Medium airplane, 4 1/3” WS, unpowered, two-bladed prop, two tail fins, metal wheels.
#53 Trimotor airplane, 4 1/3” WS, unpowered, three-bladed props, metal wheels.
#71 Small airplane, 2 ¾” WS, unpowered, flat tail (i.e. no tail fin), raised cockpit, two-bladed spinning prop, metal wheels, white with bright green and red markings, "Casalpust" on fuselage.
#112 Constructor kit single-engine low wing monoplane, 9 ½” WS, wind-up, two-bladed metal prop, cream/red, "H3" on wings.
SON AI TOY
In 1990, a battery-operated F-14 Tomcat appeared in toy shops. The toy is identical to the 1970s Nikko Gangu release, and it even has the N-G-K trademark as part of the lithography. Underneath the plastic motor housing is molded the name "Son Ai Toy" identifying Taiwan as the country of origin.
Fighter, Jet:
Grumman F-14 Tomcat, 13" L, battery, silver overall with red diamonds along upper fuselage, grey plastic undersides and moving wings, transparent red engines, raising blue plastic canopy with two pilot figurines, yellow/red nose, "NE" on red/yellow/grey tail, "220963" on aft fuselage, "303NL" sticker on wing, Navy markings.
STRACO
Straco, or Strauss Co., is the name of a US-based toy distributor. It is not a manufacturer.
SUDA(?)-SK trademark
The stylized letters “SK” are surrounded by three concentric circles divided into three groups of arcs. See also Hishimo, HTC.
Airliner, Jet:
Douglas DC-8, 13 ¼” WS:
Battery remote control, metal jet pods with lighted green and red plastic intakes, silver/off-white, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, double aquamarine/blue cheat lines and diagonal tail stripes, red titles, “PH-DCJ” in red on each wing.
#4822, friction, switch on right lower forward fuselage for battery lights, red and green plastic intakes on tin jet engines, silver/white with red and blue markings, SAS-Scandinavian Airlines System "Royal Viking." HTC trademark on box also.
Friction, metal jet pods, Pan American, silver/off-white, blue markings, white globe symbol on blue tail fin, “Clipper Meteor,” N8000PA.
SUZUKI (SSS INTERNATIONAL); SUZUKI AND EDWARD (S & E)
The trademark “S & E” replaced the earlier Suzuki “SSS” superimposed on a globe with grid lines. S & E issued some interesting toy airplanes in the 1960s. While the Curtiss Jennies are accurate scale models, the Bristol Bulldog is not. S & E also issued a remote-control toy model of the true DC-7 airliner.
Airliners:
Douglas DC-6, 13" WS, three-bladed plastic props, steering tail wheel strut, Pan American World Airways, battery remote control, silver with blue markings similar to those of United version, N31225 (Same as LineMar Toys).
Douglas DC-7, 9 1/2” WS, friction, lever-action, four red 4-bladed metal props, silver/white, dark blue Pan American markings, N10317, three tin wheels.
Douglas DC-7, 14 3/4" WS, battery, remote control, 4 white plastic props, red plastic transparent cowlings, green or red remote control box, turning nose wheel strut, silver overall, red/blue American Airlines N310AA livery with straight (i.e., no zig-zag) cheat line.
-Pan American World Airways, silver/blue with pale blue 1950s color scheme.
Fighters:
Biplane, 14 1/2” WS, battery, lighted machine gun, tin radial engine cylinders, red with 1930s US star-in-circle insignia.
Bristol Bulldog, 14 1/2" WS, battery, parasol monoplane but should be a biplane:
Machine gun, plastic prop, tin pilot, lithographed tin radial engine, off-white/red, sunburst pattern on wing, black/red lightning bolt on fuselage, N351R in black.
Lighted engine, brown plastic prop, red pilot in open cockpit, yellow overall, red markings, RAF insignia, "T-360," "Straco" on box (a US toy importer Strauss Co.).
Plastic prop, tin pilot head in open cockpit, light blue, black cowling, red/white striped rudder, red fuselage band, NF-125.
Plastic prop, plastic pistons, red wing, white/red body, "E-AAVE" "A-602."
Plastic prop, red/black with large yellow-orange hawk design on fuselage, black Skyhawk titles.
Sky Bolt # 1471-6, 8" WS, friction with lever action, white plastic 2-blade prop, similar tooling as "KA" toys US Air Fighter and Beechcraft (see) except with stock under rear fuselage, no wheels, fires two plastic rockets from under wings, red and white, N3843A, sold through Cragstan Industries and Nipon Goraku Shokai (NGS)
WWII Fighter Flight Simulator, silver, forward fuselage with stubby wings, radial engine, prop, machine gun in front of windscreen, detailed control panel.
Helicopter:
Kaman H43, 10 1/2" L, battery remote control, 2 intermeshing 2-bladed rotors, silver, red markings.
Light Aircraft:
Curtiss JN-4 Jenny, 9 1/2" WS, friction, white plastic 2-bladed prop, bright red overall, dark red under wings, two pilots, lithographed machine gun, "NX-211" on wing in black
Curtiss JN4D Jenny, 14" WS, friction, brown plastic 2-bladed prop, black radial engine (incorrect for a Jenny), two pilot heads, red/yellow, 1930s star-in-circle US insignia, S-1961 and "Curtiss" on tail fin.
Curtiss JN4D Jenny, 14" WS, friction, red plastic 2-bladed prop, black radial engine (incorrect for a Jenny) and machine gun, yellow with red/white/blue control surfaces, two pilot heads, "HK 47" on upper wing.
Curtiss JN4D Jenny, 14" WS, friction, grey plastic 2-bladed prop, orange-red, dark red under wings, two yellow pilot heads, NX-386 on bottom wing in white.
High-wing parasol monoplane Blue Bird, 14" WS, friction, two tin pontoons, pilot heads, medium blue wings with red control surfaces, red/white/blue fuselage, "Blue Bird" on wing, R-753.
High-wing parasol monoplane Friend F-107, friction, two tin pontoons, silver/red, lightning bolt with pilot wings lithographed on fuselage, "Friend F-107" on wings.
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Re: Tin Toy Plane Production List Project
by grwebster » Sun May 01, 2011 8:22 pm
Excellent info, Tone. fascinating.
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