This listing is for a BAGGED RARE early 1950s? "Helicopters For Industry" Piasecki H-25 HUP "Retriever"  aka "Army Mule" helicopter kit in ~1/48 scale.  NO ORIGINAL BOX--but...I am including a pretty nice box from Aurora's 1956 

As you very likely know, HFI sold their molds to Aurora in the mid-1950s and Aurora reissued the Hiller Hornet, the H-21 and H-25 Piasecki choppers, and the Sikorsky S-55/H-19.

OK--the KIT is NOT COMPLETE--as far as I can tell the control stick is missing!  Also, as you can tell, there is SOME assembly [you will see in the actual pics!!--rotor assembly] , parts are from different HFI HUP kits …  and you WILL need to drill out some holes for parts to fit [rotors] .  BUT this IS a legit Helicopters For Industry kit---not the Aurora kit!!  

You can choose either the OD US Army Mule fuselage halves of the US Navy gloss sea blue fuselage halves.

ORIGINAL DECALS AND INSTRUCTIONS ARE ALSO MISSING!!

I will print out copies of BOTH for HFI [not shown] and the Aurora instructions for this kit.

I am including digitally edited and color corrected reproductions of the original decals for EITHER the USA "Mule" [I can match decals to your fuselage choice]  or the US Navy version last pics

OH--you will also get the 16 x 20 poster of the box art [last photo] !!!  Not perfect....not photoshopped...hey the box was from around 1954!!!