Marx Jetport Playset Boeing 707 - Silver HP

For the past several months I've been rummaging around The Cave and taking photos of toys that have been sitting around here for ages. No serious organized campaign, just a hit-or-miss, helter-skelter approach is all. 

Throughout the course of the blog I have posted some of the components of Marx's awesome Jetport playset, again, in a helter-skelter fashion. Here's another one of those random posts: the Boeing 707 in a beautiful silver hard plastic. It's a gorgeous airliner and a sign that aviation was changing back in the late '50s/early '60s. Propellor planes were still being used but they were giving way to the more modern jets and the Boeing 707 airliner was a landmark aircraft and is credited with beginning the jet age. It entered service with PanAm in 1958. In January of 1959 American Airlines began flying its own 707 jets and in 1960 Marx included the 707 as part of its American Airlines themed playset.

One of the positives that came about as I was rummaging through The Cave was finding bits-&-pieces of the Jetport playset in various boxes and finally consolidating them into one box for eventual posting as a complete set at some point in the future. These two 707's were a part of my Cave finds. The plane measures 12.25" (31,11cm) L x 11" (27,94cm) wingspan x 3.5" (8.89cm) H.

Ed

Of the two 707's I have, one has the partial American Airlines decals from the original playset.