An Inventory of Marx Playset Figures, Structures and Accessories Manufactured from 1951 to 1979
Appendix R-2 - Airport Playsets
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Table of Contents Airport Playsets (click on name to move to section) |
Buildings |
Airplanes |
Figures |
Small accessories |
Ground vehicles |
Bomarc missile |
Playmats |
Transportation Table of Contents |
Main Table of Contents |
Buildings |
Photos below of first terminal courtesy of collector Brad Farrell |
First terminal front |
First terminal back |
First terminal front with attachments |
Photos above of first terminal courtesy of collector Brad Farrell |
Second terminal front, with awning |
Second terminal back |
Second terminal back - with attachments |
Third terminal front |
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Third terminal back |
Terminal side walkways |
2-piece covered walkway |
Expandable walkway for de-planing passengers | Tow tractor |
Hangar Back side is enclosed |
Airplanes |
Lockheed Electra About 11 inches long and 11 inches wide. Note that the decals applied to this one erroneously read "990 Astrojet." The owner obviously knew about as much about airplanes as I do! |
Boeing 707 Photo courtesy of collector Brad Farrell About 11-1/4 inches long |
990 Astrojet About 12-1/4 inches long and 11 inches wide |
Twin Beech aircraft - two views 3-3/4 inches long |
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Beechcraft Bonanza aircraft Photo courtesy of collector Phil Webb |
Piper Tri-tracer 3-1/4 inches long, rear wheels missing |
Delta Dagger 5-1/2 inches long |
F107A "Thunderchief" 6-1/2 inches long |
X-15 experimental aircraft 4-1/2 inches long |
Vertrol 107 helicopter 4-1/2 inches long, body only |
Flying helicopter (PL-1098 and 1098A) Photo courtesy of collector Phil Webb |
Rocket-firing Delta Wing Jet aircraft Photo courtesy of Phil Webb |
Delta Jet underside | Missles for Delta Jet |
First friction-powered X-15 jet plane Photo courtesy of collector Carlos Olmos, Ebay ID coco333 Top of tail is missing. |
Second friction-powered SV-3 jet plane about 6 inches long |
X-15 tail wing showing Linemar logo Photo courtesy of collector Carlos Olmos, Ebay ID coco333 |
Figures |
1. Policeman on motorcycle | 2. Policeman standing, right hand up | 3. Man carrying box on shoulder | 4. Newsboy | 5. Man pushing broom |
6. Man with hammer and chisel | 7. Man pushing hand cart | 8. Hand cart | 9. Man with pencil and paper | 10. Man with paper, right arm extended |
11. Man in hard hat, wrench on shoulder | 12. Man in suit, looking at watch | 13. Woman pushing baby stroller | 14. Woman wearing hat with purse | 15. Woman carrying grocery bags |
16. Woman standing with child | 17. Girl with ice cream cone | 18. Stewardess with shoulder bag | 19. Ground crew with batons | 20. Ground crew wearing goggles, right hand up |
21. Traffic controller, seated | 22. Emergency crewman with fire extinguisher | 23. Ground crew with fuel hose | 24. Pilot, walking | 25. Jet pilot in high altitude suit |
Small Accessories |
1. Searchlight tower 5-1/4 inches tall, shown slightly smaller in scale than other accessories |
2. Fuel stand 3 inches wide |
3. Boarding stairs 1-3/8 inches tall |
4. Fuel truck 4 inches long |
5. Crash truck 4 inches long |
6. Multi-piece conveyor 3-1/4 inches long |
1. Radar tower 5-1/4 inches tall, shown slightly smaller in scale than other accessories |
2. Forklift 2-1/2 inches long |
3. Boarding stairs 1-3/8 inches tall |
4. Tractor 2-1/2 inches long |
5. Portable generator 2-1/2 inches long, but taller than the tractor as shown |
6. Loaded luggage cart 2-1/2 inches long |
7. Empty luggage cart 2-1/2 inches long |
8. Aircraft ladder | 9. Fire extinguisher 1-1/2 inches tall |
10. Engine on stand 2 inches long |
Runway lights 5/8 of an inch tall |
Luggage and crates These are tiny pieces; the brief cases in front are 3/8 of an inch by 1/4 of an inch. The crate in the middle is the early deep red color; others are the red-orange. |
2-piece wind vane 2 inches long |
Control tower | Terminal with full control tower on top Photo courtesy of collector Phil Webb |
Close up of control tower Photo courtesy of collector Brad Farrell |
Control tower bases Colors are not true when seen on the computer, but left one is early powder blue and right one is later light blue. |
Control tower roof Roof has four spots each for the two hand railings and one each for the three antennas. The bracket at the front right is to hold the ladder in place. |
Control tower room | Close up of control tower equipment |
Control tower antennas - wind speed indicator, radio antenna, weather vane 2-1/2 inches tall |
Control tower hand railing Photo courtesy of collector Phil Webb |
Ladder Photo courtesy of collector Phil Webb |
Terminal awning 4-3/4 inches wide |
Pipe rail fencing 5 inches wide |
Roof attachment for hangar About 6-3/4 inches wide. See item attached to hangar earlier on this page. |
Overhead street light 4-3/4 inches tall |
A-style tree |
Ground Vehicles |
Sedan | Convertible |
Airport Bus about 6-1/2 inches long |
Friction-powered automobiles |
Bomarc Missile |
Bomarc missile launcher | Launching instructions from playset instruction sheet | Ready to launch with rubber band attached to one of four hooks below the boom (rubber band is not original) |
Playmats |
First version of airport playmat Photo courtesy of collector Brad Farrell |
Second version of airport playmat |