The next big surprise caused by Schuco. We found a Czech Airlines set!! It includes the following five models and was made exclusive for the airline. If you need the set its available at the CSA web shop for almost 50 Euro or on ebay for 25 Euro only.... 

Douglas DC-3 / Reg. OK-WDF
Tupolev 154 / Reg. OK-SCA
Illyushin 62 / Reg. OK-ZBO
Boeing 737-500 / Reg. OK-XGD
Airbus A320 / Reg. OK-MEI

The factory where Schuco produced all Schabak models in the past went bankrupty some month ago. The issue is that Schuco has problems to get the current moulds out of the factory. It will be a long and hard conflict for Schuco with the bankrupty Chinese manufacturer to get the "old" moulds back. All models from the 2011 program are cancelled! There will be no new releases for this year anymore!

To avoid a lack of production, Schuco found a new factory and already started the production of completly new moulds. First models will be the bigger aircrafts like the A380, 747, 777, A330 or A340-600. But it seems we have to wait until the Toy Fair 2012 to see the first releases. Even Chinese factories aren't able to produce at such low cost they once did anymore. To afford this investment, Schuco increased the prize of the models again, but aircraft-models.net is once again trying to pass as little as possible to his customers, which results in an increase from 8,90 to 9,50 EUR. Schucos official retail prize is 11,95 Euro for bigger models like the A380 or 747 and 9,95 for smaller ones.

Schuco released two new models this year. Annoyingly these vere made exclusive for the Japanese market and not available for any other distributors.

Boeing 747-400 JAL "Oneworld" / Reg. JA8913
Boeing 777-300 JAL "Oneworld" / Reg. JA752J

Airbus A380 Lufthansa "Lufthansa.com" / Reg. D-AIMA (not released)
Airbus A330-300 Etihad / Reg A6-AFB (available)
Airbus A330-300 Lufthansa "Lufthansa.com" / Reg. D-AIKK (available)
Airbus A330-200 TAP Air Portugal / Reg. CS-TOO (available)
Airbus A320 Olympic Air / Reg. SX-OAK (not released)
Airbus A319 S7 Airlines (not released)
Boeing 737-800 Malev / Reg. HA-LOH (not released)
Boeing 747-400 Japan Air Self Defense Force / Reg. 20-1101 (available)
Boeing 747-400 Lufthansa "50years Boeing" / Reg. D-ABVH (available)
Boeing 747-400 Lufthansa "Düsseldorf" / Reg. D-ABVH (available)
Boeing 747-400 Virgin Atlantic new colors (available)
Boeing 747-400 Air France new colors / Reg. F-GITH (available)
Boeing 777-300 Air France new colors (available)

New mould for the Airbus A340-600 from Lufthansa, Thai and Ibera spotted!

Pictures online!