Eads / Tennessee / United States
ABOUT AIKENS Aikens Airplanes was founded in 1997 as a result of experiences encountered in collecting for our own personal collection. We looked in stores every where, called around and even surfed the net for hours. What we found was that airplanes in general are terribly under represented in the market place. For example, on a popular auction web site there are numerous subcategories in the collectible category but no aviation/airplane subcategory. When we did locate a source, often their inventory of collectible diecast airplanes was minimal at best ( often one to five different types ) and prices were unpredictable mostly high. We also found that because retailers maintained such small numbers that they really didnt know much about them either. Having grown up in an airline family ( dad flew for Eastern Airlines ) and half way through my own airline career, I as well as my family are all airplane nuts. This enthusiasm has carried over into the die cast collectible airplanes as well ( Seems to be working its way down to the next generation. My 2 year old glued to the joystick flying the new Microsoft Flight Sim "Combat" program! ) Our mission here is to rectify the market short comings of the die cast airplanes by offering the largest inventory of airplanes at a competitive or better price while providing first rate service. We are able to do this by keeping overhead very low and specializing in airplane collectibles only. We also aim to maintain an info bulletin board updated regularly with various related topics that will enable our customers to make better decisions with their own selections.
