Schabak 1:600 Scale Diecast 2925-205 New York Air Boeing 737-300 Limited Edition

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Schabak 1:600 Scale Diecast 2925-205 New York Air Boeing 737-300 New in Box
Silver Wings Limited Edition 1 of only 2,000 produced worldwide
1:600 Scale- measures 2 3/8 inches length, 1 7/8 inch wingspan
Diecast metal construction
Accurate livery scheme
Tampo printing process makes even the finest lettering legible
Landing gear attached
Includes display stand
Retired 2000
Limited Edition with numbered certificate
New Condition in original box
New York Air
was a 1980s startup airline owned by Texas Air Corporation and based at Hangar 5 at
LaGuardia
Airport
in Flushing,
Queens
,
New York
City. In 1980, airline industry entrepreneur Frank Lorenzo created a holding company for his Texas International Airlines called Texas Air Corporation. In the autumn of 1980, Texas Air created a new airline called New York Air (NYA), the second of America's post-deregulation airlines after Midway Airlines, which had been founded a year earlier in 1979 (see Airline Deregulation Act of 1978). New York Air was based at
New York
's
LaGuardia
Airport
, very near the
Queens
neighborhood where Lorenzo had been raised. New York Air became Lorenzo's challenge to the expensive and near-monopoly Eastern Air Lines Shuttle, and provided cheaper and equally frequent (hourly) flights between
New York
,
Boston
and Washington-Reagan National. Founding New York Air president, Neal F. Meehan, had been a senior manager at both Continental Airlines and at Texas International Airlines (TI). In September, 1980, Meehan quickly assembled a talented team of airline managers, including Margo Bell (Reservations), Ken Carlson (Strategy), Harris Hermann (Legal), Stephen Kolski (Flight Operations), William C. Bottoms (Maintenance), Scott Christian (Economic Planning), Charles Bare (Chief Pilot), and Louise Gilliam and Michelle Collins (Inflight Service). Within 90 days, this core management team had hired, trained, uniformed, and drilled New York Air's flight crew, flight attendants, dispatchers, terminal, ramp and reservations personnel. Office and maintenance facilities in the hangar which had originally housed American Airlines headquarters at LaGuardia in the 1930s were thrown up rapidly, and the carrier obtained FAA certification as an adjunct to TI's certificate. In one notable vignette, New York Air managers interviewed over a thousand candidates for flight attendant, reservations, and airport jobs in one day of group interviews held at
New York
's famed Town Hall Theater, in November 1980. The Airline Pilots Association (ALPA) pilots' union fought New York Air vigorously, running picket lines at LaGuardia and Washington National and taking out critical ads in the
New York
newspapers. Suspected acts of vandalism, interference, and prohibited aircrew operations were also reported by New York Air flight crews and managers. New York Air's representatives to the Airline Scheduling Committees (CAB-authorized committees of airline representatives that allocated takeoff and landing slots at capacity-controlled airports in New York, Washington, and Chicago) were stonewalled for months as they sought to get the necessary 'slots' for New York Air to operate its shuttle services between New York, Washington, and Boston. Eventually, however, the airline succeeded in overcoming all obstacles. New York Air service commenced on 19 December 1980 with shuttle operations between New York LaGuardia, Washington National, and Boston Logan airports. A moribund
U.S.
economy and the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) strike badly hurt New York Air's first 15 months of operation. The strike particularly affected the
New York
,
Boston
, and
Washington
airports where NYA operated a vast majority of its flights. Passenger traffic began to build substantially in 1982 after President Ronald Reagan intervened against PATCO strikers, and the
U.S.
economy began to recover. A new CEO, Michael E. Levine, was brought aboard in 1982 to restructure the airline. Levine first shrunk NYA, then doubled it in size between by 1984 at which time NYA was solidly profitable. Levine left NYA in the spring of 1984. At its operational peak, New York Air employed over 2,000 people before Texas Air combined NYA with Continental Airlines on February 1, 1987. The New York Air image and livery disappeared as NYA was integrated into Continental mainline operations during 1987.
Enjoy an affordable, collectible airliner that has been retired since the 1990's! Schabak 1:600 miniature airliners are highly-detailed, diecast replicas of commercial aircraft, painted for airlines around the world. The brilliant colors and tiny, yet legible, lettering make collecting these little gems fun and exciting.
Discontinued Schabak 1/600 Scale Diecast Models produced in Germany during the 70s, 80s & 90, before Schabak closed in the late 1990's.
Schabak was a die-cast toy producer based in Nurnberg, Germany. The company was well known for its line of German cars and high-quality commercial airline models. Schabak was formed in 1966 by Max Haselmann, Gerhard Hertlein, Horst Widmann and Wolfgang Stolpe. The company began as a toy distributor, mainly for Schuco Modell toys - and not as a producer. When Shuco went out of business in the late 1970s, Schabak acquired most of Schuco's tooling (cars and airplanes) and made agreements with many airlines to continue producing model aircraft. The company reissued many of Schuco's own diecast airplanes before producing miniature cars. Schabak then carried on the Schuco tradition of model cars. In the early 1980s, Schabak largely replaced Schuco, but it should be remember that Gama Toys acquired dies from Schuco and reproduced many of Schuco's 1:43 scale line as well.
Schabak, perhaps more than anything, is known for its diecast airplanes, mostly commercial airliner models in 1:600 scale. As mentioned earlier, Schabak's first planes were taken directly from Schuco. Schabak had well over 200 airlines as customers, and even produced the liveries of some defunct airlines. Thus, the company has become a competitive name in the world of airline promotionals, and their offerings were in a consistent state of change. Schabak was, for a long period during the 1990s, the only company known to have a contract to produce models of Iraqi Airways, having produced a Boeing 747 of that airline in the 1:250 scale. Schabak represented nearly 100 different airlines in 1:250 and 1:600 scales. Aircraft manufacturers in the Schabak line are the old Junkers JU52, Concorde, Vickers Viscount, Ilyushin IL 86 and 96, Tupolev 154, McDonnell-Douglas DC-9 and MD-11, Boeing 737, 747 (including Air Force One), 747 short fuselage, 747-400, 767, 777, 787, Airbus A300, A310, A 319, A320, A321, A330, A340.
This scaled aircraft model makes great gifts for airline employees, retirees and aviation enthusiasts of all ages. This detailed diecast airplane model was produced to specifications from the aircraft manufacturer and the airline company. It reflects, as accurately the paint scheme of the airline and has many details that are not usually found on other models in this scale. Each model is meticulously finished for unsurpassed quality. This scaled model was produced is accurately painted and professionally detailed.
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