Factory Direct Model Airplanes
Custom-made military and civilian aircraft models
Pilot owned and operated for over 35 years, Factory Direct Models (FDM) creates world-class custom aircraft models for the aviation industry’s most respected manufacturers and professionals. Currently, we supply meticulously detailed military and civilian aircraft models to over 50 aircraft manufacturers and hundreds of the world’s leading aerospace companies in over 68 countries. Each scale model is custom-made and precisely engineered to your exact specifications. From desktop displays to full-scale exhibits, we build virtually any model in any configuration. Aircraft models are our specialty, but we also create highly detailed custom displays, plaques, ships, vehicles, and one-of-a-kind pieces. If you can dream it, we can build it. FDM – A Model of Excellence.
Custom exhibit models in any size, from desktop to full-scale, with your paint scheme, custom interior details and working navigation lights is our specialty. Airplane models may be our core business, but we also build very highly-detailed, custom-made wall plaques, ships, yachts, boats, cars, trucks and unique, one-of-a-kind displays. We embrace the opportunity to build “outside the box.” Have an idea? We will build you a model that will not only meet your expectations, but rather exceed them. If you can dream it, we can build it.
“Excellence is not the standard by which we operate; it is the standard by which we strive to exceed.”