My North Central / Southern / Republic Airlines 1:400 Scale Model Airliner Fleet
Updated: November 2018
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North Central Airlines "The Route of the Northliners" was always one of the more successful local service airlines and their merger with fellow local service airline Southern Airways "The Route of the Aristocrats" on July 1st 1979, to create Republic Airlines, produced an impressive airline with an excellent complimentary network. This was added to in 1980 with the purchase of Hughes Airwest effectively combining 5 of the original local service airliners together. Republic's history was cut short in 1986 when it was purchased by Northwest Orient with Republic's Detroit, Minneapolis and Memphis hubs becoming the core of Northwest's domestic network.
For the genealogy of Republic please see here. |
North Central and Southern Airways between them have had 9 releases in 1:400 scale of which I own 7. The two I'm missing are not very good models (old Aeroclassics DC-9-10 and ugly Netmodels series 30). There have also been 9 models for Republic made in 1:400 scale to date and I own just 5 of them. However I am missing on purpose the old Aeroclassics DC-9-10, a Netmodels DC-9 and the recent Aeroclassics 727-200, which duplicates the existing Gemini jets example.
It is delightful that 2016 brought the first prop and 2018 the first long awaited Republic Airlines in the 'Mary Tyler Moore' scheme, courtesy of NG Models. What is still missing? Plenty. Obviously there are DC-3s, Martin 4-0-4s and Convairs aplenty but it'd be nice to see some more MTM Republics as well and perhaps some NW hybrid 757s.
It is delightful that 2016 brought the first prop and 2018 the first long awaited Republic Airlines in the 'Mary Tyler Moore' scheme, courtesy of NG Models. What is still missing? Plenty. Obviously there are DC-3s, Martin 4-0-4s and Convairs aplenty but it'd be nice to see some more MTM Republics as well and perhaps some NW hybrid 757s.
