NOTE: RADIO CONTROL AIRPLANES ARE ON THE BOTTOM HALF OF THE PAGE.
The CASA C-101 first flew on June 29, 1977 with flight testing starting on April 17, 1978. Performance was
excellent and the Spanish Air Force ordered the aircraft.
CASA C-101 aircraft entered service on March 17, 1980.
The aircraft is flown by the Patrulla Aguilar Spanish Air Team.
In 1983 CASA started production of a dedicated attack version designated the A-36 Halcon.
A total of 143 CASA C-101 aircraft of all types have been produced to date.
There are several scratch built CASA C-101 RC Airplanes flying, but we only know of a few kits.
Nitro Planes sells a CASA C-101 with a wingspan of 46" powered by a brushless motor driving a ducted fan unit. It is a RTF RC Airplane with a ready to fly weight is 38 oz.
Pictured above and below is the CASA C-101 for sale from
BZ-Modellbau. It has a wingspan of 57". Fuselage length is 63". You
will need a minimum 11 lb. thrust turbine for. All up weight is around 14 lbs.
The second picture below is of the
CASA C-101 built by Graham Reddin. It appears that at one time Graham offered
it as a kit for sale under the name Innflight, but we have not seen it being sold recently. The wingspan is 31".
Construction materials are balsa and lite plywood. Graham powers his CASA C-101 with
a HET 240-15 motor. The fan unit used is a WeMoTec Micro Fan. All up weight is just 23 1/2 oz.
The bottom picture on this page is of Carlos Marquez Perez and his scratch built CASA C-101. The rc airplane has a wingspan of
65" and a length of 75". Carlos uses a 17 1/2 lb. thrust turbine engine for power.
Do you have a favorite rc CASA C-101? Please email us if you do.
We received the following email:
Hello dear friends, I´m Javier from Alicante,Spain. I see
your web page and would like to know where if it is possible obtain scale plans
for turbines, edfs, or kits of the CASA C-101? I know that bzmodellbau has a
semiscale rc design to fit a P-60 Jet Cat.
If you know of CASA C-101 scale plans for sale with balsa and ply,
retracts and flaps please email me at
cgomez@jsharp.e.telefonica.net.
CASA C-101
The rc CASA C-101 showing flaps lowered.
CASA C-101
RC CASA C-101 by Graham Reddin.
CASA C-101
Carlos Marquez Perez and his rc CASA C-101.
At RC Groups jet jer was offering a Innflight CASA C-101 for sale.
At RC Groups Wout mentions a CASA C-101.
JCast of RC Groups started a build thread for a CASA C-101 with pusher prop power.
At RC Groups termite had yet another Inflight CASA C-101 for sale.
Concep60 of RC Groups was looking for CASA C-101 plans.
At one time Mountain Models had a CASA C-101 profile model for sale. It bore little resemblance to the actual aircraft.
Jorge Garcia of RC Groups posted a three view drawing and picture from which to build a CASA C-101.
U812 of RC Groups mentioned his CASA C-101.
GoeKeli of RC Universe started a thread in which he was seeing a CASA C-101.
CASA C-101
