Airfix
Also known as Airfix company
Airfix is a British brand and former manufacturing company which produced injection-moulded plastic scale model kits. In the UK, the name 'Airfix' has become practically synonymous with plastic models of this type, "they became a sort of generic name for any plastic, injection-moulded model kit".
Key facts
- Company.name
- Airfix
- Company.logo
- Airfix simplified logo.png
- Company.logo_size
- 150
- Company.type
- Private (1939–86)
- Company.fate
- Acquired by Humbrol in 1986, until its closure in 2006, becoming a brand
- Company.foundation
- 1939
- Company.founder
- Nicholas Kove
- Company.location
- United Kingdom
- Company.products
- Scale model cars, aircraft, ships, commercial vehicles, military vehicles, railways
- Company.owner
- Hornby plc (2006–present)
- Company.parent
- Humbrol (1986–2006)
- Company.brands
- Kitmaster (1962–2006)
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Article
15 sectionsContents
- History
- Expansion
- Decline, purchase by Humbrol
- 50th anniversary
- Demise of Humbrol and acquisition by Hornby
- Hornby era
- Ownership and production summary
- Box art
- Model railways
- Video game
- In popular culture
- References
- Notes
- Bibliography
- External links
Airfix is a British brand and former manufacturing company which produced injection-moulded plastic scale model kits. In the UK, the name 'Airfix' has become practically synonymous with plastic models of this type, "they became a sort of generic name for any plastic, injection-moulded model kit".
Airfix manufactured a wide range of plastic model products such as cars, aircraft, ships, commercial vehicles, military vehicles, railways, and figures. Founded in 1939, Airfix was owned by Humbrol from 1986 until the latter's financial collapse on 31 August 2006. Since 2007, both Humbrol and Airfix have been owned by Hornby.