I will review here AIRFIX kits in the following two groups:

• All kits I remember to have built from the late 50´s to the late 60´s.
  
  In a few cases I´m not 100 % sure if I had this peculiar kit . These entries will be marked with a question mark " ?"
  
  I cannot always determine clearly which package style came with the particular type of aircraft I remember and I list here. Anyway in some cases I list sveral types of boxart, just for the joy of comparison.
  
  I use the classifications of packaging styles as defined by the Airfix Collectors Club, which are explained in detail in the highly recommended website Collecting Airfix Kits .
  
  Three packaging styles are relevant here : Type 1, Type 2, and Type 3 ( example S-55 Helicopter ). Type 2 headers resp. boxtops have been used by Airfix since about 1959 / 60, Type 3 headers and boxtops has been used from 1963 to 1973.
  
  It is clear, that in my local model shop there could be well older types of packages on sale even when a new package style has been introduced by AIRFIX . Presently I collect mainly type 2 versions from AIRFIX kits I remember. Every time I come across a kit of an aircraft with this type of boxart I think: "I must have seen it sometime or other ". Anyway this is the type of boxart I like most, closely followed by Type 1.
  
  The case of boxart is further complicated as I obviously had kits distributed by PLASTY . This German importer reboxed and re-issued AIRFIX kits between the late 1950´s and early 1970´s. Plasty utilised various packaging styles for the Airfix kits and early bagged kits had different artwork.
  
  I remember to have had 4 ships , too (see also my remarks here ).

• A selection of kits from the above period I aquired since 2003
  and, as it fits here well, too, some 70´s AIRFIX kits from my civil collection
  ( see these remarks) .