
Latest Pre-Orders
HA38066 | Hobby Master Military 1:72 | F-16CM Tiger Tiger 1 91-0379, 79th FS, Shaw Air Base, 2023 | is due August 2025
HA38065 | Hobby Master Military 1:72 | F-16C The Spirit of Broken Arrow 88-0545, 138th FW, Oklahoma ANG, 2024 | is due August 2025
HA0154 | Hobby Master Military 1:72 | MIG-21SM 812th UAP, Kharkov Higher Military Academy, Soviet Union, Aug. 1991 | is due September 2025
HA0153 | Hobby Master Military 1:72 | MIG-21MF Slovak Air Force 7713, 4th Flight, Sliac Airbase, 1999 | is due September 2025
HA9705b | Hobby Master Military 1:72 | MIG-31K (with KH-47 missile) Bort 36, Russian Long Range Aviation Command (w/extra 4 x R-37 missiles) | is due August 2025
HA6409c | Hobby Master Military 1:72 | J-15 Flying Shark No. 70, Aircraft Carrier Liaoning, PLAAF (w 2 x KD-88 & 2 x YJ-83) | is due August 2025
HA6001b | Hobby Master Military 1:72 | Su-27 Flanker-B Barents Sea Red 36, 941sr IAP, Soviet Air Force, 1987 (w/extra empty pylons and decal to represent collision with P-3) | is due August 2025
HA4568 | Hobby Master Military 1:72 | F-15EX Eagle II AF20-003, 96th Test Wing, Eglin AFB, Dec 2003 (w/16 x AIM-120, 2 x AIM-9) | is due August 2025
HA2831 | Hobby Master Military 1:72 | F-22 Splinter Camouflage USAF (fictitious scheme) | is due August 2025
HA2633 | Hobby Master Military 1:72 | AV-8B II Plus Operation Inherent Resolve 165357, VMA-231, USCENTCOM, 2017 | is due: August 2025
HA2553 | Hobby Master Military 1:72| F-105F Thunderchief Peach 91 63-8299, 128th TFS, Dobbins, 24 May 1983 | is due: August 2025
HA8329 | Hobby Master Military 1:48 | Spitfire Mk. VIII A53-379, flown by F/L David Glaser, No. 549 Sqn., Strauss Airstrip, Sept 1944 | is due: August 2025
HA8328 | Hobby Master Military 1:48 | Spitfire Mk IXc MA466/BQ-S, No. 451 (RAAF) Sqn., Corsica, May 1944 | is due August 2025
SA2095 | JC Wings 1:200 | Airbus A330-300 Korean Air NC Reg: HL8025 With Stand | is due: July 2025
XX40724 | JC Wings 1:400 | Airbus A330-200 Level Reg: EC-NEN With Antenna | is due: July 2025
XX40723A | JC Wings 1:400 | Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner IndiGo Reg: LN-FNC Flaps Down | is due: July 2025
XX40723 | JC Wings 1:400 | Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner IndiGo Reg: LN-FNC With Antenna | is due: July 2025
XX40722A | JC Wings 1:400 | Boeing 777-300ER China Eastern Airlines Shanghai Museum Reg: B-7349 Flaps Down | is due July 2025
XX40722 | JC Wings 1:400 | Boeing 777-300ER China Eastern Airlines Shanghai Museum Reg: B-7349 | is due July 2025
XX40721 | JC Wings 1:400 | Airbus A320 Jetblue Dunkin Reg: N643JB With Antenna | is due July 2025
XX40719 | JC Wings 1:400 | Embraer ERJ-170LR LOT Polish Airlines Reg: SP-LDF With Antenna | is due July 2025
XX40495 | JC Wings 1:400 | Boeing 767-200 United Airlines Saul Bass Reg: N607UA | is due: July 2025
XX40484 | JC Wings 1:400 | McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 SAS Scandinavian Airlines SE-DFD With Antenna | is due July 2025
XX40435 | JC Wings 1:400 | Airbus A300-600R Lufthansa Reg: D-AIAZ With Antenna | is due July 2025
XX40278 | JC Wings 1:400 | Boeing 747-100 House Color First Prototype Museum Version Reg: N7470 With GSE set | is due July 2025
Popular books
AFQR25S | Air-Britain Books | Airline Fleets Quick Reference 2025 (spiral-bound) | is due June 2025
9781739819484 | Destinworld Publications Ltd | Sud Aviation SE.210 Caravelle Timelines
9781739819491 | Destinworld Publishing Ltd | Boeing 757 Timelines
9781739819460 | Destinworld Books | World Airport Spotting Guides, Third Edition
9781739819439 | Destinworld Publications Ltd | UK & Ireland Airport Spotting Guides
The Full Story of the VC10, Super VC10 and RAF VC10 by John P McCrickard | is due July 2025
The VC10 was the last in the line of successful Vickers Commercial post-war airliners designed and built in the Weybridge factory at the pioneering...
View full detailsACCUT1288 | Aero Classics 1:400 | Fokker F.27, Cubana CU-T1288
ABAF25 | Air-Britain Books | Airline Fleets 2025
AFQR25 | Air-Britain Books | Airline Fleets Quick Reference 2025 (softback)
9781800353305 | Crecy Books | W&R - On Guard - Britain's Military Gate Guardians and Air Cadet Airframes Since 1940 - Ken Ellis
Publisher: Crecy ISBN Number: 9781800353305 Format: Hardback Pages: 288 Illustrations: Approx. 96 colour images and 200 black and white This new bo...
View full detailsSMGT25 | Dutch Aviation Society Books | Scramble Military & Government Transports 2025 (88 pages, ring binder)
SWAF2025 | Dutch Aviation Society Books | Scramble World Airline Fleets 2025 (259 pages ring binder)

SMSEUR2025 | Dutch Aviation Books | Scramble Military Serials European 2025 (129 pages, ring binder)
From Lodestars to Jets - Clayton Glenn Memoirs 1943-1964
The most extensive photo history of Air Canada TCA ever to be published “From Lodestars to Jets” is the history of Air Canada TCA from the memoirs ...
View full detailsUKQR25 | Air-Britain Books | British Isles Civil Aircraft Registers Quick Reference
9781803994635 | Misc Books | Life of a Concorde Pilot, from the Orphanage to the edge of space by John Tye (Paperback)
9781473886629 | Pen & Sword Aviation Books | History of British European Airways - 1946-1972 - Charles Woodley (Paperback)
9781526758828 | Pen & Sword Aviation Books | Lockheed Tristar - The most technologically advanced Commercial Jet of its time by Graham.M.Simons
FlyingColsFarn | Misc Books | Flying Colours at Farnborough 'The Airshows since 1970'
This volume is full of high quality colour photographs taken by Richard Vandervord of aircraft at Farnborough air-shows from 1970.
9781802828641 | Key Publishing Books | Boeing 727 by Nigel Richardson
The Boeing 727 is an American narrow-body airliner that first flew on 9 February 1963, having been developed and produced in response to the demand...
View full details9781445618500 | Triumph in the skies - Boeing 727 by Dan Dornseif
9781908117793 | Misc Books | Nimrod: Rise & Fall (hardback) - Tony Blackman
The scrapping of the Nimrod programme has been one of the most controversial events in the military aviation world for many a year. For most of i...
View full details9780750985772 | The History Press Books | Lockerbie The Truth - Douglas Boyd
9781398115941 | Amberley Publishing Books | Military Airlift Command (MAC) in the 1980's by Adrian Symonds
MAM25 | Stuart R Schofield | Military Aircraft Markings 2025
New Arrivals Available Now
AFQR25 | Air-Britain Books | Airline Fleets Quick Reference 2025 (softback)
PROP25 | Magazines | Propliner Annual 2025 - The International Review of Classic Piston-Engined and Turboprop Transport Aircraft
BATB001 | Other Gifts | British Airways 'Speedmark' tie bar in silver.
Keep your tie straight and out of your meal with one of ARD's tie bars depicting the iconic British Airways 'speedmark' swoosh. A perfect gift for...
View full detailsBATB002 | Other Gifts | British Airways 'Speedmark' tie bar in gold
Keep your tie straight and out of your meal with one of ARD's tie bars depicting the iconic British Airways 'speedmark' swoosh. A perfect gift for...
View full detailsBATB003 | Other Gifts | British Airways 'Chatham Tail' tie bar in silver
Keep your tie straight and out of your meal with one of ARD's tie bars depicting the iconic British Airways 'Chatham Tail'. A perfect gift for tha...
View full detailsBATB004 | Other Gifts | British Airways 'Chatham Tail' tie bar in gold
Keep your tie straight and out of your meal with one of ARD's tie bars depicting the iconic British Airways 'Chatham Tail'. A perfect gift for tha...
View full detailsBACONCOINSET | Other Gifts | Limited Edition British Airways Concorde commemorative coin set
A lovely set of three British Airways Concorde commemorative coins set in a presentation case. Strictly limited to 100 sets. The pictures depict th...
View full detailsARDBA124 | ARD Models 1:200 | Lockheed L-1011 Tristar British Airways 'Landor' G-BBAH 'with collectors coin'
ARDBA55 | ARD Models 1:200 | Airbus A319 BEA livery celebrating 100 years of British Airways G-EUPJ (with stand)
ARDBA122 | ARD Models 1:200 | Airbus A319 British Airways G-EUPE (with stand)
319-ZBV | Blue Box 1:200 | Airbus A319-111 EasyJet G-EZBV (with stand)
319-ZBI | Blue Box 1:200 | Airbus A319-111 EasyJet G-EZBI (with stand)
OBM14003 | Panda Models 1:400 | Airbus A321-251 Easyjet G-UZMC (with winglets)
573252 | Herpa Wings 1:200 | Saab 340 Crossair HB-AKN
WAR25V1 | Mach III Publication | World Airline Registrations 2025 (Aircraft Registration Order)


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