Incredible Model RAF Plane | Antiques Roadshow

All valuations were correct at the time of broadcast. This model RAF plane was made in the mid-1930s and yet it's still in great condition. Hugh Scully and the experts from Antiques Roadshow take a look at some fantastic antiques and the history and stories surrounding them. This clip was filmed in Hornchurch in 1990.
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[@AllenORourke1954]

Hilary Kay, what a gorgeous woman, fancied her for years, two years younger than me, lovely to see her again...

[@pspauseAtHome]

That's my dad -- Ray Searle -- who at the time owned Searle's Collectors Toyshop in Hornchurch!

[@stevepringle2295]

Beautiful pair of aircraft.

[@broderickwallis25]

Thanks for the date and place for these shows.... And will keep watching.... A fairly young and pretty Hillary Kay

[@jamesbizs]

I knew it was made by a German manufacturer, by seeing the words made in Germany on it.

[@whitesapphire5865]

Yeah..... I thought that was a bit of a giveaway too. 🤦🤣

[@kevdimo6459]

For a stunning piece of detective work I must commend you both! 🥇🥈Please accept these medals for exceedingly good work.

[@OLDMANTEA]

Amazed by her skills in deduction

[@kone.linngus3651]

Brilliant! Lol

[@stetson711]

Made on Germany by Chinese.

[@WoBlink1961]

Whether or not the plane is representation of an actual aircraft or not (and I have no time to Google it now), the fuselage shape is pure Junkers, and very reminiscent of the Ju52 WWII transport plane (which was a monoplane rather than a biplane)

[@alanbeaumont4848]

Looks like an impression of a De Havilland DH.18 with extra wing struts, which would more likely date the model to the 1920s, rather than the 1930s. EDIT: I'm wrong, it's a combination of various De Havilland designs IMHO, which makes it a chimaera and places it once more as a 1930s toy.

[@kone.linngus3651]

I don't always know stuff about things, but I do know where they're made when it says 'Made in...'

[@David-ci1vn]

She mentioned the plane being made at a time of Germany's export drive, it needed to as the country had suffered fourteen years of mayhem including outbreaks of civil war against communists, in 1933 a certain group took exception to Germany's independent streak and declared a global trade war on everything German, hardly surprising they weren't like very much.

[@Trevor_Austin]

RAF plane? No, it’s a lovely antique toy plane with some roundels. It’s clearly German in origin because of the typeface.

[@kevdimo6459]

Have your say! But please don’t mention the war.

[@multa765]

It would be nice if a little more reaction time was granted to the owners, all these clips seem to finish very abruptly.

[@broderickwallis25]

That's like those singing shows, the voice, xfactor etc.... The stars actually are the presenters and must not be upstaged by a commoner.... Starting in the 1960s media has seen themselves as a new royalty !!!! Not necassarily our lovely Hillary.... Lol

[@rogerpritchard]

It looks like a German aircraft to me. But what a wonderful toy. Worth about £1,500 in 2023.

[@alanbeaumont4848]

A De Havilland DH.18, with minor differences.

[@alanbeaumont4848]

Oops: It's a chimaera inspired by various De Havilland designs.

[@rogerpritchard]

Ahh, interesting. I assume about 1938.

[@dancostello6465]

R100 didnt last long.

[@chrisbagley8104]

The R100 was designed by Barnes Wallis and was successful. It was scrapped as a result of the R101 crash.

[@archivist17]

RAF? Er, only the roundels may be, but no tail markings, not reminiscent of any British aircraft. Are those roundels even original? I suspect not. The airship, on the other hand...😍

[@gearjammer3688]

The factory probably slapped on markings for which ever country it was being shipped too.

[@alanbeaumont4848]

Try the De Havilland DH.18 from 1920. Almost identical.

[@archivist17]

​​@@alanbeaumont4848 there is a similarity, it's true, if you ignore the two extra engines and the enclosed cockpit being in front of the cabin. Oh, and the fact it wasn't in service with the RAF.

[@alanbeaumont4848]

@@archivist17 Well we don't know if it is simply a chimaera, because it is just a toy, but it doesn't seem to resemble anything else either. EDIT: Can't find any biplane trimotors. The wing mounted engines look like those from a De Havilland Dragon Rapide (still flying as any fan of the David Suchet Poirot TV episodes will have noticed), but mounted upside down! The D-R didn't have a nose mounted engine, so I'm sticking with the chimaera theory. It's a 1930s toy designed by someone who wasn't making a scale model of anything in particular.

[@broderickwallis25]

A lot of joyful artistic licence !!!