LEGO City 4209 Fire Plane

LEGO City set 4209, Fire Plane, depicts a firefighting aircraft within the City Fire theme. Released in 2012, it contains 522 pieces and adds an aerial emergency response vehicle to the City fire service setting.

Fire Plane sits in the Fire branch of LEGO City, where firefighting and rescue services define the setting. Its subject is an aircraft used for fire response, giving the theme a different focus from ground vehicles and station based scenes.

The build is centered on the aircraft body, cockpit area and scene elements suited to a firefighting operation.

It is suited to play layouts where emergency crews coordinate between air and ground. On display, the aircraft gives a City Fire collection a profile that differs from trucks and buildings. For collectors, it is best placed as a 2012 City Fire set focused on aerial firefighting.

Inventory of set 4209

The inventory of set 4209 lists 522 pieces, spare parts excluded: 179 different lots (one shape in one color) for 147 part shapes. The box also contains 17 spare parts, for small elements that are easy to lose.

Colors of set 4209

Main color: red, making up 20% of the parts, followed by light bluish gray (12%) and dark bluish gray (12%).

Part types

Most common parts in set 4209

134 of the 147 part shapes in this set have their own page on Setopedia, with their colors, element numbers and the other sets that use them. See all LEGO parts

Exclusive parts in set 4209

One part shape in set 4209 appears in no other set in the catalog, most often a printed element, a sticker or a mold specific to the model. If it gets lost, you will need to look for it individually, for example on BrickLink, rather than in another set.

No similarly sized set supplies more than a quarter of its parts: set 4209 relies on a little-shared assortment.

Size of set 4209 within its line

With 522 pieces, set 4209 ranks #134 out of 723 City sets in our database, which have an average of 306 parts. Among the 321 sets released in 2012, it ranks #46.