Looking for a PT-23

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My Internet search has come up empty. Is anyone aware of a kit of the PT-23 trainer?

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MPM/Special Hobby has made a 1/72 PT-19, so we’re close. You’d have to modify the kit as the PT-19 had an in-line Ranger engine, and the PT-23 had a radial Continental R-670. So a little “modeling” will be needed to get you there. If you have a spare old 1/72 Revell Stearman, that has the Continental engine, although it’s not very good.

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Thank you, sir. Sounds like the way to go.

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I think that Engines and Things has a resin 670 in their line.

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Planet Models makes a PT-19 and a PT-26 in 1/48 for a starting point in 1/48, in resin. I have both and they are very nice.

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Thanks for the heads up! I would like to build it in 48th, but it’s going alongside five other a/c in 72nd and 144th as a collection of military aircraft that operated in the area around Memphis, TN. This particular plane was photographed at the base in Union City, TN.