I think I can say with out fear of contradiction, that most men like a little Beaver. And that is particularly true of those that build models. The DHC-2 Beaver was developed just after WW2 when DeHavilland Canada realized that they needed to design a rugged bush aircraft of be forced out of business. The Beaver was the result of that and it was enough of a success to keep the company solvent for many years.

Though not their first design; that was the DHC-1 Chipmunk, a very capable primary trainer that saw a great deal of use, The Beaver led to the much larger DHC-3 Otter and then to the DHC-4 Caribou, a twin engined, medium lift, cargo aircraft. With the exception of the Chipmunk, probably the largest user of DeHavilland Canada aircraft was the US Army, which bought prodigious numbers of the Beaver, Otter and Caribou.

This is not a new kit and I'm somewhat surprised that it has not been reissued by Hornby. Perhaps they are doing a new tooling. It is not surprising that the Airfix kit would represent a version used by the British Army. Not all Beavers have all those lumps and bumps on top of the forward fuselage, so if you are doing other Beavers, that needs to be modified.

The Airfix kit has been around for a while, at least the mid 1970s and while devoid of gimmicks is still a child of that era with raised panel lines, a mediocre interior, and oversize parts. My example was in an olive drab plastic and in a box dated 1986. This one was from the 'dead kit' pile at the LHS as the previous owner had cut the backs away from the rear seats.  The transparencies are quite thick, especially the roof ones, which have large sink marks in them. Tough to remove, too!

The interior consists of two forward seats, two middle seats (the ones with the backs removed on my kit), and a rear bench. There is s single piece double control column and an instrument panel. I mentioned the thickness of the transparencies so no worries if you don't put a lot of effort into the interior. If you do, the two cabin doors are separate items so you can pose one or both open. The wings are a single upper piece and two lower halves. There are separate control hinges and what look like small bomb racks for the left wing underside. Probably for message containers (or beer kegs).

This kit can be built as a floatplane if one desires. To that end there are a nice pair of floats iwth various braces and water rudders. A strake for the lower rear fuselage is provided in lieu of the tail wheel. You can also put your Beaver on skis as those are included. In this case, they are added in addition to the main wheels and a ski is provided to attach to the tail wheel.