Aero L-39C / L-39ZO Albatros 'In USAF, USN & USMC Colours'
Aero L-39C / L-39ZO Albatros 'In USAF, USN & USMC Colours'
This injection-moulded kit contains 24 parts and one clear part (the cockpit canopy). A comprehensive decal sheet is included.
Colour schemes included in the kit:
1) Aero L-39C Albatros, “US Air Force”, 00-439 (N439RS), 412th Test Wing, Edwards Air Base, California, U.S.A, 2003
2) Aero L-39C Albatros, “US Air Force”, NX39P, Wittman Regional Airport, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, U.S.A., 2003
3) Aero L-39C Albatros, “US Navy”, NX139PM, Waukegan Airport, Illinois, U.S.A., 2012
4) Aero L-39ZO Albatros, “US Marines”, NX160JC, Detroit Willow Run Airport, Michigan, U.S.A., 2008
| Ref. No.: | MKM144012 |
| Availability: | IN STOCK |
Aero L-39C / L-39ZO Albatros 'In USAF, USN & USMC Colours'
The L-39 Albatros, a high-performance second-generation jet trainer, was developed by the Aero Vodochody aircraft company in Czechoslovakia during the 1960s. It is a two-seat, all-metal monoplane powered by an Ivchenko AI-25 turbofan engine.
Becoming the most widely used jet trainer, until today about 2,800 L-39s have served with more than thirty air forces around the world.
The L-39C was a standard basic trainer, while the L-39ZO was developed into an interim weapons trainer.
Many of the ex-air force service aeroplanes are finding new homes with private warbird owners all over the world, which fact is particularly evident in the United States, where their popularity led to a purely “L-39 Jet Class” at the Reno Air Races. One L-39C was evaluated by the USAF’s 412th Test Wing at Edwards AFB in 2003.
Products purchased together with this product
Curtiss H-75A/Mohawk IV ‘Allied Pilots’
Two injection-moulded kits are supplied in this box and each kit contains 27 parts and four clear parts (the cockpit canopy, rear windows and a landing light). A comprehensive decal sheet is included. The rear side of the box now comprises the representation of a tarmac section of the airfield which can be cut out and used as a display base for the assembled model.
Colour schemes included in the kit:
1) Curtiss H-75A-3, No.230, White O, flown by Sgt. Marcel Milan, Free French Air Forces (Forces aériennes françaises libres, FAFL), Bangui airfield, Ubangi-Shari, French Equatorial Africa (Afrique-Equatoriale française, AEF), May 1941
2) Curtiss H-75A-3, No. 329, flown by S/Lt Lubomír Úlehla, Pilot’s School, Free French Air Forces (Forces aériennes françaises libres, FAFL), Kasbah-Tadla airfield, Marocco, North Africa, 1944/45
3) Curtiss Mohawk Mk. IV, 2537 (ex-RAF Mohawk Mk. IV, BJ536), flown by the Flight Commander, No.3 ʻFighting Waspʼ Sq., South African Air Force, Alamata airfield, Ethiopia, Africa, summer 1941
4) Curtiss Mohawk Mk.IV, BB928, White Z, ʻCymru am Bythʼ, flown by Sq Ldr Charles Jeffries (OC), No.155 Sq., Royal Air Force, Agartala airfield, Northeast India, January 1943
