Curtiss Condor AT32 Biplane Wood Model Airplane

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Model Airplane: AT-32 Condor Biplane Airliner
Material: Mahogany wood
Manufacturer: Curtiss - American Airlines
Engine: Propeller - Seaplane
Era: World War II

Model Airplane Factory offers handmade Condor T32 model wooden plane trainer, artistically created by our gifted artists. The details of the T-32 Condor such as the insignia, logos, body number, and squadron are carefully and artistically painted in the Curtiss Condor model plane trainer for precision. The T32 Condor model aircraft trainer is meticulously carved and painted to reflect the true detail of the original Condor T32. The process starts from carving the fuselage and the intakes on the fuselage sides to the Condor T-32 cruciform tail design, to the assembly and final polishing of the T32 Condor trainer aircraft model. Multiple coats of clear lacquer is applied in Curtiss Condor wooden trainer aircraft to protect the exquisite artwork and provide an overall glossy finish. Every part and detail of the T-32 Condor trainer wood plane model is given equal attention to retain the actual specification of the T32 Condor. This Condor T32 wood aircraft trainer model made of mahogany comes with a metal stand and wooden base.


Curtiss Condor II is the last of the US biplane propliners. American flew it because the 247 and DC-2 did not have enough fuselage width to accommodate berths. After CR Smith convinced Douglas to build the DC-3, the slow Condor couldn't compete. The original version of the T-32 Condor biplane airliner of 1933, with fixed-pitch propellers. The Condor was an excellent design, but it appeared at the same time as the Boeing 247 and the Douglas DC-2, so it was quickly outmoded.

In February 1934 the U.S. Government cancelled all air mail contracts due to a scandal involving corruption, politics and all the nuances in between. The U.S. Army took over the task of delivering the mail with disastrous results, but that's another story. Important to this narrative is the fact that most of the airlines which had contrived to hold the contracts prior to the government suspending their services were now resurrected under thinly disguised name changes. Hence American Airways became American Airlines in June of 1934. Having gleaned some more trans-continental routes after the restructuring, the company had a requirement for more modern types. In 1933 American Airways had already picked up Transamerican Air Lines and with it, an order for the earlier Curtiss T-32. These were put in operation on the New York - Chicago route. The new routes gleaned after the company became American Airlines demanded an aircraft capable of flying the Dallas to Los Angeles route with sleeper accommodation. Curtiss responded by updating the T-32 to the AT-32. This variant of the retractable landing geared biplane had a more powerful Wright Cyclone engine, plus controllable pitch props. The craft could accommodate 15 berths which converted to a 17 seat day-plane.

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