A model aircraft is a physical model of an existing or imagined aircraft, and is built typically for display, research, or amusement. Model aircraft are divided into two basic groups: flying and non-flying. Non-flying models are also termed static, display, or shelf models.
Boeing 747-400 scale display model
Group of students with their wooden model airplanes in Sonta, Serbia, 1936.
Wind tunnel model of a Loire-Nieuport LN-10 floatplane
Lufthansa Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor model on display
A model is an informative representation of an object, person or system. The term originally denoted the plans of a building in late 16th-century English, and derived via French and Italian ultimately from Latin modulus, a measure.
Model of a molecule, with coloured balls representing different atoms
Part of the one-ninth scale model of Bourton-on-the-Water at Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, England
Water-powered model of the UK economy – MONIAC in the Science Museum, London
Female model demonstrating brassiere for similarly-built potential buyers