The State of 400 Scale As 2025 Closes in 2 Stats

[YesterAirlines]

I am busy working on my big review of 2025, which'll cover a website review of the year and hopefully a couple of videos (top 15 models of 2025 and top 10 trends of 2025) however while I'm drawing up those big pieces and collating stats I came across a couple that I think you'll find especially interesting - namely the massive increase in number of announcements year on year (there are several reasons for this which my review will help explain) and the ratio of US : China : RoW releases (note announcements and releases aren't the same thing for the purposes of these stats).

Both illustrate the current state of 400 scale quite well and of course will be further explored in my coming articles:

 

[BubblesAviation]

Chinese models representing over a fourth while America isn’t even a fifth is very surprising.

 

[JJ Skippy]

I’d be curious to see the breakdown of releases by country in the Rest of World category — then we really get to see where global diversity shines and where it’s dull…

 

[squatchys_diecast_hangar]

Chinese models representing over a fourth while America isn’t even a fifth is very surprising.

Not really, it all started with the tariff issues in February and NG, who has the better part of the vast majority of monthly releases pivoted quickly to Asian titles. Our orders with them dove nearly 60%, which is a shame. The vast majority of North American collectors are wanting North American releases. Definitely saw this with our accounting dept. we bought seemingly more collections this year than new releases. Which is fine as our bread and butter are hard to find models, new releases get folded into store stock. The only new releases we tended to sell out of, or get close to selling through month after month were Aeroclassics. So would be nice to see that percent of US title creep up in 2026.

 

[Ciderman]

What I don't understand is that the so called bread and butter releases are not permanently available through regular re-releases for example. Okay, one exception comes to mind: GJ do this with their Emirates releases.

 

[Macsergey]

I can not take seriously complaining about low amounts US models released when entire South America and Africa has less then 50 models total. Also vast majority of European and Asian models are only few airlines like Lufthansa, KLM, Korean. This makes most of the world underrepresented

 

[planes_on_a_shelf]

I can not take seriously complaining about low amounts US models released when entire South America and Africa has less then 50 models total. Also vast majority of European and Asian models are only few airlines like Lufthansa, KLM, Korean. This makes most of the world underrepresented

THIS

 

[LeoMuse747]

I can not take seriously complaining about low amounts US models released when entire South America and Africa has less then 50 models total. Also vast majority of European and Asian models are only few airlines like Lufthansa, KLM, Korean. This makes most of the world underrepresented

 

[YesterAirlines]

I just realised my figures were incorrect in that I hadn't included Hong Kong in China so actually there were 454 Chinese models representing 32% of the total