Sipa S.10 / Arado Ar-396

In 1943, the Reich Aviation Ministry launched a program to save aluminum alloys, non-ferrous metals and quality steels in aircraft construction, especially in non-combat aircraft.
In order to save these materials, the Ar 96 was to be replaced as a training aircraft with a new machine made from non-deficit wood and steel.
Arado transferred the development of the new Ar 396 type to the Société Industrielle pour l'Aeronautique in occupied France.
Here, German and French designers designed a simple aircraft with a wooden construction, only the central cabin part of the fuselage was designed as a grid of steel tubes covered with a thin sheet of steel.
Steel tubes were also in the wing spars.
The drive was an air-cooled inline inverted twelve-cylinder Argus As 411 TA-1 with an output of 426 kW and a two-bladed automatically adjustable propeller.
The aircraft manufacturer SIPA was to build three Ar 396 prototypes and 25 production machines of the verification series.

Plastic model kit

Decal options:

• Sipa S.10, No.19, France 1948
• Arado 396 V3 / Sipa S.10, No.01, Bourges, France, December 1944
• Arado 396 V1, Brandenburg, Germany, January 1944
• Sipa S.10, No.05, France 1947

Scale 1:72

unbuilt / unpainted

Paint and glue not included