New Ray - P-51 Mustang® Tuskegee Airmen "Red Tails" Model Kit (1/48 Scale plastic model, Silver/Red) SS-20235

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Item#: SS-20235

UPC: 093577202359

SS-20235 New Ray - P-51 Mustang® Tuskegee Airmen "Red Tails" Model Kit. 1:48 scale plastic model airplane. This is a 10" long plastic aircraft. These airplanes are plastic construction. Painted plastic model to be assembled, without glue, on base. The easy to build model requires no glue to assemble, Screwdriver included. The miniatures are delivered already painted and decorated. Individually packed in a window box WB. Box size: 11"L x 2"W x 8"H. SS-20235 is in Silver with Red.

The Tuskegee Airmen is the popular name of a group of African American pilots who fought in World War II. Formally, they formed the 332nd Fighter Group and the 477th Bombardment Group of the U.S. Army Air Corps. They were initially equipped with Curtiss P-40 Warhawks fighter-bomber aircraft, briefly with Bell P-39 Airacobras (March 1944), later with Republic P-47 Thunderbolts (June–July 1944), and finally with the aircraft with which they became most commonly associated, the North American P-51 Mustang (July 1944). When the pilots of the 332nd Fighter Group painted the tails of their P-47s and later, P-51s, red, the nickname "Red Tails" was coined.

North American P-51D Mustang

Designed to meet an RAF requirement for fighter-bomber and reconnaissance aircraft, the P-51 Mustang was first flown on October 26th, 1940. This versatile aircraft was capable of escorting bombers on long-range missions, engaging in dogfights, and dropping down to destroy German targets on the ground. At least eight versions of the P-51 were produced, but it was the definitive P-51D that gave the Mustang its classic warbird appearance. Britain and the US both tested the airframe with the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine, which gave the aircraft tremendous performance gains. The Truman Senate War Investigating Committee called the Mustang "the most aerodynamically perfect pursuit plane in existence."

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Case pack: 12 pcs.

Sold in lots of 6 pcs.

Price quoted is for 1 pc.

Age Recommendation: 3 years and up