1/48 PA135-150 Monogram OS2U-3 Kingfisher - RAF Or US Navy - Blue Box Issue - (OS2U3)
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
NOTE: includes parts for land-based version only. This is the first issue dated 1966 with the best mold quality. It is part of the very famous line of 1/48 scale World War II action kits the Monogram issued all through the 1960s and even well into the 1970s. Finely molded and detailed for that time and feature, good cockpit and rear seat gunner detail, underwing bombs, elevating and rotating gun, pilot and gunner figures, five piece canopy that can be positioned closed or in several open configurations and choice of US Navy or Royal Navy decals. The kit has never been started. NOTE: inventoried complete with the 'Land Based' (landing gear' version only. All of the float version parts are missing. Includes instructions and decals for Pre-War Yellow Wing version or wartime variants. The Royal Navy aircraft were called Kingfisher I and 100 of them were delivered with both wheel and float gear. The US Navy aircraft represented by the decals is that of Lieutenant William F. Eadie from a Kingfisher squadron based in the Ellice Islands. He spotted and rescued Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker and his companions after they had been on a raft in the Pacific for 21 days and virtually given up for lost. Lt. Eadie moved the most injured into the radio compartment while Rickenbacker and the other crew member were lashed to the wings. Eadie figured that the aircraft could not fly, and luckily he met a PT boat and transfered the uninjured men to it.
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