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ALMOST SOLD OUT; ONE LEFT. PLEASE NOTE: The Image may be slightly different than the Actual Product.
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Hobby Master 1/72 Air Power Series (Propeller Powered), Grumman F6F Hellcat, Aeronavale Flotille 1F, 1950’s, #HA1103. | • Type of Model: Pre-Assembled Diecast Model
• Year of Release: 2007
• Scale: 1:72 Scale
• Product Attributes: Authentic Detailing, Pre-Painted and Markings Pre-Applied, Fully Assembled, Die-Cast Model, True to Scale (1:72) and Movable Propeller and Wheels, Display Stand Included
• Type of Display Base: Black Plastic Base with Black Plastic Stand.
• Display Options: The diecast airplane model can be displayed in either the "In Flight" position with landing gear up or in a "Landing" position with landing gear down.
Brand new, unopened, mint in box condition; PLEASE NOTE that all product packaging and boxes will have some shelf ware and may have minor imperfections like creases, folds, indentions or small tears in the boxes. |
| About the Grumman F6F Hellcat Fighter:
The Grumman F6F Hellcat was a carrier-based fighter aircraft developed to replace the earlier F4F Wildcat in United States Navy (USN) service. Although the F6F resembled the Wildcat, it was a completely new design powered by a 2,000 hp Pratt & Whitney R-2800. Some tagged it as the "Wildcat's big brother". The Hellcat and the Vought F4U Corsair were the primary USN fighters during the second half of World War II.The Hellcat was the first USN fighter designed in view of lessons from combat with the Japanese Zero. The Hellcat was credited with destroying 5,271 aircraft, while in service with the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps (5,163 in the Pacific and eight more during the invasion of Southern France, plus 52 with the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm during World War II), which was more than any other U.S. naval aircraft. Postwar, the Hellcat was phased out of front line service, but remained in service as late as 1954 as a night fighter.Navy and Marine F6F pilots flew 66,530 combat sorties and claimed 5,163 kills (56% of all U.S. Naval/Marine air victories of the war) at a recorded cost of 270 Hellcats (an overall kill-to-loss ratio of 19:1). The aircraft performed well against the best Japanese opponents with a claimed 13:1 kill ratio against Mitsubishi A6M, 9.5:1 against Nakajima Ki-84, and 3.7:1 against the Mitsubishi J2M during the last year of the war. The F6F became the prime ace-maker aircraft in the American inventory, with 305 Hellcat aces. The U.S. successes were not only attributed to superior aircraft, but also because they faced increasingly inexperienced Japanese aviators from 1942 onwards, as well as having the advantage of increasing numerical superiority. |
| Hobby Master 1:72 scale diecast airplane models are a great compliment to Matchbox Collectibles, Corgi Aviation Archive/History Channel, Witty, Gaincorp, Forces of Valor or IXO Junior airplane models.
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