Long Live the 727: A Series 200 Wishlist

​For over a decade the Boeing 727-200 Advanced was the aircraft of choice, if you didn’t want a widebody, within the USA and in many other parts of the world. Even into the late 1980s and early 90s it still formed a large chunk of the global fleet and so not surprisingly there is plenty of scope for 727s in 1:400 scale even though lots have been made already. Nowadays it falls only to Aeroclassics to regularly produce the venerable trijet so what easy pickings are left?

Some of my Aeroclassics 727s

The Aeroclassics 727-200 mould is not faultless, the tail top is a bit of a mess and the no 2 engine exhaust is way too big but overall it is good enough and certainly forward of the tail very good. Sometimes Aeroclassics has trouble printing the cockpit windows on their 727s and creates a rather angry look. This should be easy to avoid by making sure the side windows don’t angle upwards and perhaps slightly increasing the height of the front windows.

Angry on the left and not angry on the right

​Anyway, on to the wishlist. I have found 40 prime 727-200s yet to be made, apologies if I've missed a holy grail of yours. Add a comment if I have!

​I think that all of these have a reasonable case for production and I'd get the lot:

---

United States

​Nowhere operated anywhere near as many 727s as the States and the options left are impressive, especially for deregulation startups:

Arrow operated passenger ops with 727s in the mid-80s

PEX hybrid

N8883Z in the one off Ribbon / squiggle scheme for Kiwi International

Northwest / Republic hybrid

N64339 wore these experimental colours in 1980

---

Europe

The 727 saw quite wide service with major flag carriers but there were relatively few smaller operators. Even so what about these?

I know Gemini made this one but did you see what they did to the cockpit?

---

Latin America

---

Africa / Middle-East

---

Asia

---

Australasia

So that's it. Please get to it Aeroclassics!