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Hey Ron Thanks for getting back. I did a search on Remco 727 on google and got a few hits including an auction site that had a pic and sold what looked like a mint one for a little over $100. I have also seen one in National Airlines colors and one in Brannif colors which was the auction one (ugly orange.) On ebay this week someone was selling the battery compartment cover, which I need, for $85. Can you believe it? I almost gagged! I've always wondered what to do with it. I don't know if it will come clean just cleaning it or if I should airbrush it white and then try to airbrush the d

Here is the picture that I referred to earlier. 1968. Hope the link works. My Remco 727 - 1968

OMG! I have one one of these in my basement! It looks in the same shape as your pics and I know it still works though I have lost the battery cover underneath (probably when we moved here 15 years ago). I've often thought of restoring it but been afraid to touch it and almost threw it out a few times due to my wife and her "clutter" removal fits! Somewhere I have a picture of my father holding it above his head with me standing next to him on XMAS morning probably 1968 or 1969. Will see if I can dig it up. I hope you don't mind if I ask as I have never seen another one and never seen o