SHOP: GIFTS - Airfix Model - North American P-51D Mustang

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  • Product code: P8HM1T

The North American P-51D Mustang is viewed as one of the iconic American fighters of the Second World War.  Designed to an RAF specification the Mustang was transformed once the Rolls Royce Merlin engine was installed.  It's long range and excellent firepower made it a superb escort fighter, able to protect the bombers all the way to Berlin and back.  After the war the P51 saw service in Korea and was used by some air arms up until the early 1980's.

This model represents a P51 flown by: Llt Spurgeon Ellington, "Tuskegee Airmen", 100th Fighter Squadron, Ramitelli, Italy, December 1944


Scale:  1:72

Size of model: 136mm L  x  157mm W

Number of pieces:  53

Skill level: 1