Now guys was the kit made for competition or to get someone started in to control line. I think wit trimming for flight it would have been a good first CL plane. 
No Doc, it was sold as a stunt model. Came in two versions, with a EVO.36 or without. I think both came with lines and a handle. It was 'styled" after the Cox PT-19, in my opinion, with a short nose and tail moment, and the box art resembled the then current Cox PT-19 box, whether that was intentional or not, I don't know. At that time, lots of R/C clubs were shrinking and looking for membership and letting member fly C/L on site. Some older R/C guys probably had some of their stuff still, and figured it would be an easy does it re-entry into the old days of their youth, and I think that's who they marketed that airplane towards. Nothing "trainer" about it. It fit together really nice, and assembled easy enough. I was working at the hobby shop still at the time so I wanted the full kit with engine , and I assembled it 100% as per instructions. I broke the engine in as per instructions but I could never get it ti run correctly from the get go. For first flights, I substituted a trusty OS.40FP. With a stock muffler, it still needed 2 ounces of nose weight to balance and the balance point in the instructions was wrong I believe. First flights were almost a disaster!! Using all the provided hardware and such, it was SUPER sensitive and was all I could do to keep it in the air. . I added an extension to the control horn to make the horn about 1 1/2" long, and added more nose weight. Once I did all of that, it would fly a good pattern. But if I was an R/C guy flying for the first time in 25 or 30 years, it would have ended in disaster. Built as per instruction, to the letter, it was unflyable in my opinion. I was lucky to get it back on the ground in one piece, and it seemed like it ran for an hour on 4 ounces of fuel!! I still have the airplane, and used to use it in demonstrations along with a Cox PT-19. I liked it enough ck then that when they announced it would be discontinued, I bought a replacement wing for it to use in a scratch built model. I made a tracing of the fuselage when i got it, and plan on stretching the nose and the tail into something that looks about right when compared to the Midwest model and see how that goes, but keep it a profile. The last time I flew it, the bottom covering on the outboard wing decided to part ways with the wing, and that made things interesting, but I got it down in one piece. Just need to strip off what ever Chinacoat that was on there off, and and recover with Monokote.
Hey Mike!! I just remembered that I think Don Hutchinson did the PT-19 in his 40 powered warbird series. Some one o ut there may know for sure off the top of their head. I'm not sure where I could look it up at.
Type at you later,
Dan McEntee
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