Category: WW2 Era (1939-45)

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Dual Control TF-51D With Spare, “Zero Time” Engine Offered For Sale

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North American TF-51D N327DB (S/N 44-84860) has hit the market.

The airframe reportedly has 2841 hrs total time (1841 hrs since restoration) while the Packard V-1650-7 engine (with 500 Series Heads and Banks / Carbide fingers installed) has 26 hrs since overhaul by Mike Barrow.

The machine reportedly features an avionics package, dual cockpit controls with instruments and throttle / prop controls, Hooker harness, high pressure oxygen (both seats), newer style panel with 3″ gyros, etc. A lengthy list of spares is also included, including a zero time Packard V-1650-7 engine with 500 series Heads and Banks (transport) / carbide fingers, set of main landing gear parts, three main wheels, tailwheel and tire, right wing tip / extension panel and misc boxes of small parts.

The aircraft is located in Santa Rosa, CA and is currently being offered for $3,350,000. Click here to check out the complete listing.

(Photo: Bill Larkins / CC BY-SA via Wikimedia Commons)

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First Look: Sprues For Sword’s Upcoming Grumman Avenger Kits

Sword Models has released sprue images for their upcoming Grumman Avenger kits in 1/72 scale.

The kits will reportedly represent Avenger AS.4 (SW72130), TBM-3S2 Avenger (SW72131) and TBM-3R (SW72132). As previously reported, details are limited, although the offerings are slated for release sometime at the end of June.

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“One Of The Nicest BT-13s You Will Ever See” Offered For Sale

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Vultee BT-13A N67496 (S/N 8042) has hit the market. The listing states (in part):

Extensive restoration, Warbirds Cover April 2010, Best Basic Trainer Sun n Fun 2010, One of the nicest BT-13’s you will ever see, S/N 8042, Airframe: 2762.8 TTSNEW, Engine: 896.5 SMOH, Propeller:406.6 SMOH, Avionics: PS Engineering Audio Panel w/intercom, Garmin 250XL NavCom, King KY197 Com, Garmin GTX 335 ADS-B, 2 pair Bose A20 headsets, Equipment: Red-line brakes, Steerable solid tailwheel, Sump drain kit, Whelen Strobes, G meter, Auxiliary fuel pump, Exterior; Polished aluminum, Interior: Custom Oregon Aero pilot seat cushion. Extensive parts inventory. Annual 6/2020

The machine is currently being offered for %150,000, although offers are also being accepted. Click here to check out the complete listing.

(Photo: Valder137 / CC BY via Wikimedia Commons)

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Revell Releases New, “Highly Detailed” 1/48 B-25D Model Kit

Revell has released a new boxing of their B-25D Mitchell model kit in 1/48 scale.

The “highly detailed, Level 5” offering (04977) reportedly includes a detailed interior and engines, bomb loading, and livery options representing two B-25D machines from 345 Bomb Group.

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Fieseler Storch 3/4 Scale Replica Offered For Sale

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A 3/4 scale Fieseler Storch replica has hit the market. The listing states (in part):

…aircraft is complete, has a 1600 cc 4 cylinder Volkswagen engine with 2 barrel carburetor, engine has convention bell housing with starter and build in generator the conversion also includes a belt drive system for the prop, has hydraulic brakes, wing tanks, I am not the builder of the aircraft but have all building logs. The aircraft was quickly disassembled for transport due to a flood the aircraft did not get wet but the elevator and ruder cables are cut and the aileron cables, easy fix! Can help disassemble and load on trailer.

The machine is located in Manchester, Tennessee and is currently available for bidding. Click here to check out the complete listing on eBay.

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Eduard Announces Upcoming Release of New Tool “Dual Combo” Spitfire Mk.I Kit

Eduard has provided additional details on their upcoming, new tool Spitfire Mk.I model kit in 1/48 scale.

The new offering, dubbed “The Spitfire Story” (11143) will reportedly be released as a limited edition “dual combo” kit focused on machines from its introduction into service to the end of Battle of the Britain. It will include two sets of plastic to build two models in the boxing as well as a resin figure of Douglas Bader.

The kit is slated for release in August. Click below to check out additional images.

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New Book Tells The “Definitive and Dramatic Account” of Fighter Pilots’ Mission to Avenge Pearl Harbor

Dick Lehr’s new book Dead Reckoning: The Story of How Johnny Mitchell and His Fighter Pilots Took on Admiral Yamamoto and Avenged Pearl Harbor reportedly tells “the definitive and dramatic account of what became known as ‘Operation Vengeance’ — the targeted kill by U.S. fighter pilots of Japan’s larger-than-life military icon, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the naval genius who had devised the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor.”

“AIR RAID, PEARL HARBOR. THIS IS NO DRILL.” At 7:58 a.m. on December 7, 1941, an officer at the Ford Island Command Center typed what would become one of the most famous radio dispatches in history, as the Japanese navy launched a surprise aerial assault on U.S. bases on Hawaii. In a little over two hours, more than 2,400 Americans were dead, propelling the U.S.’s entry into World War II.

Dead Reckoning is the epic true story of the high-stakes operation undertaken sixteen months later to avenge that deadly strike – a longshot mission hatched hastily at the U.S. base on Guadalcanal. Expertly crafting this “hunt for Bin Laden”-style WWII story, New York Times bestselling author Dick Lehr recreates the tension-filled events leading up to the climactic clash in the South Pacific skies – frontline moments loaded with xenophobia, spycraft, sacrifice and broken hearts.

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Award Winning P-51D Mustang Offered For Sale

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1944 P-51D “Little Rebel” S/N 45-11495 (N5551D) is currently available for sale.

The airframe reportedly has 88 hrs since restoration (fuselage built by Tri State Aviation, wings built by Odegaard Wings). The machine is powered by a Packard -1650-7 w/500 series heads and banks (rebuilt by Jay Johnson, heads and banks by Central Cylinder Machine, Roush Pistons, Eye Engineering – fingers) and spins a Hamilton Standard 24D50 propeller with 88 hrs since overhaul by Maxwell Propeller.

The machine includes an avionics package with a Garmin SL40 comm, Garmin 320A transponder and PS Engineering PS1200 intercom. A rage of other equipment is also included, such as drop tanks, replica armor plating headrest, pre oiler, spin on oil filters and Harrison radiator.

The aircraft is a multiple award winner at EAA Airventure, taking home Best P-51 in 2009, Returning-Best of Class in 2010, and Silver Wrench – Bob Baker in 2009. It is currently being offered for $2,500,000. Click here to check out the complete listing.

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Gaspatch Announces Upcoming, “Highly Detailed” Me 163 Comet Kit

Gaspatch Models has announced the upcoming release of a new Me 163 Comet model kit in 1/48 scale.

At the moment, details appear to be extremely limited, although the kit is touted as being “highly detailed” and “coming soon.”

(Gaspatch Models via AeroScale)

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Collection of Historic Aircraft, Cockpits, Parts, WW1 Ultralights To Be Auctioned

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An auction is reportedly set to take place at at Western PA Warbirds Museum in Mercer, Pennsylvania which includes “historic and replica aircraft, instruments and parts.” Available items reportedly include:

Beech 18, Ercoupe 415C, 1939 Taylorcraft (Project), Phantom F-4 Cockpit, Stinson Ambulance Model L-5 fuselage, F-86H fuselage, 2 Hawker Hunter fuselages, 7/8’s scale partial or fully built WWI ultralights– SE-5A, Nieuport 11, Fokker D-8, Spad 13, Nieuport 17. Hundreds of F-86 parts.

The auction will reportedly be conducted by Bullock’s Bid ‘N Buy with internet bedding beginning Saturday July 4; becomes live webcast Saturday July 18 at 10:00 AM EST. Click below to check out additional images and details.

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