Percival Provost T1 1/4.5 Short Kit by Jerry Bates

This is the short kit for the Jerry Bates designed 1/4.5 Provost T1.  The short kit includes all balsa and plywood parts as shown on the plans. No G10 parts are included in this short kit. As with all of Jerry Bates designs the construction follows basic methodology and is an exceptional scale model.  No plans are included with the short kit. If you have any questions about what is included and not included with this short kit please do not hesitate to contact us. 
 
The Provost was an all-metal, single-engined, two-seat monoplane, featuring fixed conventional landing gear with a fully-castering tailwheel. It was developed to provide training that was better-suited to the increasingly-complicated operational aircraft that were then being brought into service. The main two seats in the cockpit were positioned in a side-by-side configuration, enabling the instructor to sit directly alongside the student, easing training by allowing for mutual close observation and for flight procedures to be more readily demonstrated; a third seat had been originally specified for use by an observer, but this position was later omitted following little use