PT-109 was an 80-foot (24 m) Elco PT boat (patrol torpedo boat) last commanded by Lieutenant (junior grade) John F. Kennedy, future United States president, in the Solomon Islands campaign of the Pacific theater during World War II.

PT boat plans for the famous PT 109 offered in 1:32, 1:24 and 1:16 scale - buy and download a relatively easy-to-build semi scale blueprint of an Elco 80-footer.

Aug 19, 2023 · I've been trying to find a deck plan of the PT109 at the time of her sinking. Does such a thing exist? I found a nice plan but it shows the 4 torpedo tubes that were originally on the boat.

Over 40 years and still going strong, The One and Only PT-109. #8812-1 Two Channel Radio with one servo.

A build log for a radio controlled PT 109. This semi scale Elco 80-foot PT boat is built using a simplified plan and balsa wood for cheap, easy and speedy construction.

The deck crown contours have been subject to criticism also, being too flat. I have addressed this by adding props made of thick kit sprue under the deck to raise it a little more in the center. This makes the flexible deck more robust but has caused some problems with the fit …

Recaps of the PT 109 build: Part one: Start of the PT-109 build. Part two: Cutting out parts and framing the hull. Part three: Planking the hull. Part four: Adding hatch coaming and deck.

The PT 103 class Italeri 1/35 scale PT 109, kit number 5613, is a good kit right out of the box. See David Waples initial kit review for extensive images of the kit contents. Regarding the box, don't use the cover art as any sort of reference.

This radio controlled WW2 PT Boat was built from a Fibo Craft kit in 1968. The hull is fiberglass and the major deck structures are wood. Deck details are white metal castings and the torpedo tubes are aluminum tubing with red painted ping pong ball noses.

PT-109 was one of the hundreds of motor torpedo boats of the PT-103 class completed between 1942 and 1945 by Elco Naval Division of Electric Boat Company at Bayonne, New Jersey.