The International
Model Airplane Plans Co-operative
What is it? - A cooperative effort to digitally record against loss as much of the history of model aviation as possible and make the information available to modelers worldwide at a minimal cost to support expenses.
Many thousands of model airplane plans, 3-views, magazines, books, stories construction hints, etc., have been published over the years. These records tend to be discarded rather than preserved. Admittedly, only those of us interested in model aircraft care about this loss. That’s why when an old-time model builder catches that last thermal, often his collection of plans, kits, engines, and other model related items end up discarded or on some garage or jumble sale table.
The aim of the Plans Co-op is to preserve this history and to make it available to model builders worldwide who otherwise would not have such access.
The initial effort involves digitally scanning model plans and preserving them as PDF files which can be read by nearly all computers and printed out as full size plans for building the models. We are starting with older plans first as
these are the most likely to be lost if not preserved. Eventually we will progress to conserving newer designs.
A comprehensive catalog is being prepared but this is a BIG project with an estimated 10,000 or more plans and 3-views being anticipated in the initial listing. Please be patient and in the meantime just send your requests for plans. We probably have what you are looking for.
Current Project Administrators and Contributors