Trying to apply material and create a UV map, but it just turns "clay red"

[betterfutureGWX5C]

Hi,
I've spentt hours trying to figure this out, exporting the mesh as a obj/fbx and reimporting in a new file or even an existing one and this mesh seems like it cannot take an image file for a material. That and when I select any part of the mesh, it wont show up in the UV editor.

Whats odd is the old version (part of the mesh) will show the material and pop up in UV. 

Thank you

[damaggio]

Then the airplane has no UVs, it should show map1 in the UV sets...try making a new one or upload a scene file so we can examine it.