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The Tracker, s/n 1502,the very first Tracker built by DeHavilland Canada at Downsview, ON, is now finished although missing a few details. My hands are in terrible shape and I've been unable to handle many of the tiny pieces such as the masts and antennae wires on the top of the fuselage and the saftey straps on the sonobouy tubes.

Barney

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Thanks for the kind comments guys. DHC built 100 Trackers under licence from Grumman with the first Tracker, 1502, being delivered in Oct, 1956..and I was working in the Tower at Downsview during the time.

I had a great view of all of DHC's work on a daily basis

Faust: This is the 1:48 scale Kinetic kit with major modifications to the fuselage, rear sonobouy fairings and wingtips. The first 12 aircraft did not have glass in the cockpit overhead escape hatches

Barney

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Ah, thanks! I saw it was the Kinetc, but I didn't catch the scale.

The lack of "sunroofs" is what made it look odd, I couldn't figure it out! I didn't know there weren't any on the first ones.

Awesome! Not only a nice kit, but I got to learn something too!

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