Valenta Pilatus B4 -3m (1/5 scale)

Glider PILATUS B4 was produced in Pilatus factory in Switzerland, it was all-metal model and there was 300 pieces made. The standard version of PILATUS B4 was approved for club flying only, the strengthened version for acrobacy as well. 
The design of this glider originated in the 1960s, when the company Firma Rheintalwerke G. Basten (from which the "B" in the original designation is derived) manufactured the first two prototypes. The designers were Ingo Herbst, Manfred Küppers and Rudolf Reinke. The first flight of the first prototype took place on 7 November 1966. However, no series production was started.In 1972 Pilatus bought the manufacturing licence for the B-4 and renamed it the B4-PC11. In the spring of the same year the first production example (numbered HB-1100) made its first flight.A total of 322 B4-PC11s of all versions were built by Pilatus by 1980 
Valenta model of PILATUS B4 is all-laminated, scale 1:5. 
PILATUS B4 model is designed for slope and acrobatic flying.