Commonest Aircraft in Your Collection That's Not an A320 or 737?

YesterAirlines

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There are nearly 20,000 400 scale model releases and of those about 2,360 are 737s and 4,150 A32xs - so that's around 32% of all releases being one of the two main narrowbody families. It's hard for them not to be the top types in any collection and in my collection I have 512 737s (15%) and 267 A32x (8%). Number 3 type for me is the Boeing 727 of which I have 246 (7%). I've picked up quite a few more 727s recently and some haven't come particularly cheap, however the latest was super cheap, just £12. It's this Dragon Wings Continental Micronesia release of N622DH.

I get the feeling I'm perhaps more narrowbody focused than many so what's the commonest aircraft family in your collection, other than A32x and 737s?

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Here's the breakdown by family of my collection:

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This is mine from MADb. It doesn’t group A32x families together so I did a little extra math to compare properly:

A32x: 38
737 family: 20
757: 14
A330: 10
EJets: 10
CRJ family: 9
The rest are all about 1-3 total per type

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It's hard for them not to be the top types in any collection
I'm the usual exception to the rule😅
While I've lost track of what I have, I know that the collection has been shrinking in the past 15 or so years. I count only 6 Babybusses but the 707 is still clearly in the lead followed by the 737 or probably even the Connie.🤷‍♂️
 
As far as the rest of the collection it breaks down as 767 all variants (21), MD-80 (14), L1011 all variants (11), DC-10 all variants (10), MD-11 (9), 747 all variants (8), 717 and 707 tied with 6, DC-8 all variants, 777-200F, and BAC 1-11 tied with 3, A300, A310 and Fokker F-100 tied with 2, and the A330, F-28, and Lockheed L-100 Hercules tied with 1 each.
 
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