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The very first day of the armistice Frederick Koolhoven made his start designing an aircraft that had to make air travel a succesful competitor to the comfort of trains and ships. In April 1919, at Hendon Airfield, the first F.K.26 took to the air ... the world's first aircraft specifically designed for commercial aviation. It was piloted by the illustrious major Christopher Draper who showed himself very pleased with the F.K.26's behavior. The second F.K.26, G-EAHN, was demonstrated at the ELTA, the first Dutch aviation exhibition of August 1, 1919. Unfortunately, the cheap market of many dumped military aircraft, prevented it from being a commercial success. Of the four F.K.26 produced only one was sold: Instone Airline G-EAPK flew a regular service between Croydon and Paris. The first three F.K.26 were exploited by the British Aerial Transport Company itself, for charter flights mainly. The F.K.26 has a serious lack of fame, nevertheless it was the world's first true commercial airliner.
The model
This museum quality (highest level of fidelity to the original) aircraft display model is produced in perspex (pmma, also known as plexiglass).
Each model of plane whose construction is performed one by one for each single customer order, is carved in the workshop on the basis of plans of the original plane, starting from a block of perspex. After this long stage of precise handcrafting of volume, the future model of plane is polished and airbrushed to a very fine degree with an excellent level of realism, based on photographs or descriptive documents of the original planes. Windows are kept clear. The result is an exceptional aircraft model.
