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| The prototype D0 28D Skyservant first flew on 23 February 1966. |
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| The production Do 28D-1 was later fitted with wheel spats, wing fences, and a large dorsal spine. |
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| It's boxlike fuselage seats 12 passengers or carries up to 3,000lb (1360 kg) of payload. |
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| The Skyservants sturdy construction and a take-off run of only 920 ft (180m) has made it suitable
for operation in extremely harsh environments. |
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| The 380 hp (283kW) Lycoming IGSO-540
piston engines are mounted in stub-wings flanking the cabin
in order to maintain the STOL qualities of an aerodynamically
high clean wing. |
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The freight doors can be replaced
by a sliding door for supply para-dropping.
You can see a little of the detail I added to the interior of
the kit. |
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| This Matchbox kit gave me quite a few headaches, but in the end, it's a great addition to the
collection and I'm glad I built it. |
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| Click here to see some of the Construction stages of this kit. |
| In the early 1950's Claudius Dornier
established design offices in Madrid under the auspices of Spanish
aircraft manufacturer CASA until the postwar embargo on aircraft
manufacture in Germany was lifted. The Dornier Do27 was the first aircraft to enter production
in Germany after World War II. |
Kit: Matchbox #PK-115
(Has also been reissued by Revell/Germany) |
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Scale: 1/72 |
| Decals: Stock, except for some German style "No Step" markings I borrowed from an
ESCI Tornado kit. |
| After Market Parts: None |
| Customizations: I added internal frame structures, headrests and seatbelts,
instruments, aerials, static dischargers, cut and moved control
surfaces, scribed panel line detail, added landing and formation
lights. |
Cost: $7.00 at Wild Bill's Hobbies in Irving, Texas.
A fair deal for this kit. |
Comments: It's a Matchbox kit... need I say more?
The kit is molded in Orange, Brown and White with overly deep
recessed panel lines. Fit is fair to poor with my biggest problems being wing-to-fuselage
and landing struts-to-fuselage. In both cases, I solved the
fit problem by cutting the tabs off and sanding the two surfaces
smooth. There was still quite a bit of putty needed to finish
it off. This kit is not difficult to build, but I don't recommend it
for the perfectionist unless you're just a glutten for punishment...
like me. |
| Research: "The Encyclopedia of World Air Power" published by Cresent
Books. |
