Editing Airfix (section)

{{Short description|UK manufacturer of injection-moulded plastic scale model}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Airfix
| former_names = 
| logo     = Airfix simplified logo.png
| logo_size     = 150
| type     = [[privately owned company|Private]] (1939–86) 
| fate = Acquired by [[Humbrol]] in 1986, until its closure in 2006, becoming a [[brand]]
| foundation       = 1939 
 |founder= [[Nicholas Kove]]
| defunct = {{end date and age|2006}}
| location         = [[United Kingdom|U.K.]]
| key_people       = 
| industry         =  
| products         = [[Scale model]] [[model car|cars]], [[model aircraft|aircraft]], [[model ship|ships]], commercial vehicles, [[model military vehicle|military vehicles]], [[rail transport modelling|railways]] 
| num_employees    = 
| owner           = [[Hornby Railways|Hornby plc]] (2006–present)
| parent = [[Humbrol]] (1986–2006)
| brands = [[Rosebud Kitmaster|Kitmaster]] (1962–2006)
| subsid =  
| homepage         = {{url|https://uk.airfix.com/|uk.airfix.com}}
| footnotes        =
}}
'''Airfix''' is a British [[brand]] and former manufacturing company which produced [[Injection moulding|injection-moulded]] [[plastic model|plastic]] [[scale model]] kits. In the UK, the name 'Airfix' has become practically synonymous with plastic models of this type, "they became a sort of generic name for any plastic, injection-moulded model kit".<ref>{{cite news|last=Caddick |first=Peter |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/5304780.stm |title=UK &#124; Magazine &#124; 'Airfix made me the man I am' |work=BBC News |date=1 September 2006 |access-date=2009-11-05| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080921131201/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/5304780.stm| archive-date=September 21, 2008| url-status= live}}</ref>

Airfix manufactured a wide range of plastic model products such as [[model car|cars]], [[model aircraft|aircraft]], [[model ship|ships]], commercial vehicles, [[model military vehicle|military vehicles]], [[rail transport modelling|railways]], and [[model figure|figures]]. Founded in 1939, Airfix was owned by [[Humbrol]] from 1986 until the latter's financial collapse on 31 August 2006.<ref>[https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-humber-28994525 Humbrol development complete eight years after factory closed] on the BBC, Published 30 August 2014</ref> Since 2007, both Humbrol and Airfix have been owned by [[Hornby Railways|Hornby]].