The Castel C.25S was designed in wartime France but it was not put into production until peace had returned.

They played a major role in helping to revive aviation in post-war France through the 1950s.

Robert Castello began designing the C.25S soon after the Franco-German Armistice of June 1940 with the intention of encouraging recreational gliding in southern unoccupied France.

The first two prototypes flew in 1942.

One hundred C.25Ss were ordered by the French Air Ministry to assist the post war revival of aviation in France.

They were manufactured by Fouga between 1945 and 1948 and delivered to French gliding clubs.

Perhaps up to 200 were manufactured and they, along with Caudron C.800s, made up the backbone of the French glider basic training fleet until the 1960s, a period of fifteen years or more.

The C.25S was a successful long distance flyer, setting several records in the early 1950s. Five remained on the French register in 2010.

This model represents F-CRBI based at Angers Marce, France, in May 2005.

FSC Dujin 1/72 kit completed by Leigh Edmonds in April 2019.