Piper L-4 Grasshopper ‘US Service’
Piper L-4 Grasshopper ‘US Service’
Bagged Edition
Two injection-moulded kits are supplied in this box and each kit contains 24 parts and four clear parts (fuselage halves, windshield and canopy roof panel). A comprehensive decal sheet is included.
Colour schemes included in the kit:
1) Piper L-4A (O-59A) Grasshopper, Yellow 236389 (s/n 42-36389), ‘Elizabeth’, U.S. Army Air Force, during ‘Operation Torch’ aboard USS Ranger, North Africa, November 1942
2) Piper L-4H Grasshopper, Yellow 329635/White 59-Y (s/n 43-29635), 196th Field Artillery Battalion (FA Bn), U.S. Army Air Force, Paris ‒ Avenue de la Grand Armée, France, August 1944
3) Piper L-4J Grasshopper, Black LC-187 (s/n 45-55187), U.S. Air Force, overhauled at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, U.S.A., late 1940s
4) Piper L-4A Grasshopper, White A-201/A (s/n 42-15201), U.S. Army Air Force, Italy, 1942-43
| Ref. No.: | MKM144155 |
| Availability: | IN STOCK |
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Piper L-4 Grasshopper ‘War Years’
Bagged Edition
Two injection-moulded kits are supplied in this box and each kit contains 24 parts and four clear parts (fuselage halves, windshield and canopy roof panel). A comprehensive decal sheet is included.
Colour schemes included in the kit:
1) Piper NE-1 Grasshopper, Yellow 43-301170 (s/n 43-301170), 1st Provisional Air Observation Group, U.S. Marine Corps, Pavuvu Island, Solomon Islands, Oceania, August 1944
2) Piper L-4 Grasshopper, White 1 (s/n unknown), 1st Liaison and Observation Squadron (1ª Esquadrilha de Ligação e Observação, 1ª ELO), Brazilian Air Force (Força Aérea Brasileira, FAB), Italy, 1944-45
3) Piper L-4B Grasshopper, White QE II (s/n 43-1199, ex-U.S. 5th Air Force a/c), No. 4 Sq., Royal Australian Air Force, Nadzab airfield, Papua New Guinea, early 1944
4) Piper L-4H Grasshopper, Yellow 329586 (s/n 43-29586), Fifth Army (5 AF), U.S. Army Air Force, Gardone Riviera, Lake Garda, Italy, July 1945
Piper L-4 ‘World Service’
Bagged Edition
Two injection-moulded kits are supplied in this box and each kit contains 24 parts and four clear parts (fuselage halves, windshield and canopy roof panel). A comprehensive decal sheet is included.
Colour schemes included in the kit:
1) K-68 (Piper L-4H), White 26 (s/n unknown), Air Force Command of the District 3 (VL 3. O), Czechoslovak Air Force, Brno-Černovice airfield, Czechoslovakia, 1946-47
2) Piper L-4J Grasshopper, White R-306 (s/n 45-4720), 17th Reconnaissance & Artillery Observation Squadron (VARWA), Royal Netherlands East Indies Army Air Force (Militaire Luchtvaart – Koninklijk Nederlandsch-Indisch Leger, ML-KNIL), Batavia airfield, Netherlands East Indies, 1948-49
3) Piper L-4H Grasshopper, White YC (s/n 43-29248), ‘Puce’, 23rd Artillery Observation Aviation Section (SOAA), 2nd Group, 64th African Artillery Regiment (RAA), French Army Artillery Observation Aviation (ALOA), Sessa Aurunca (Minturno) airfield, Italy, spring 1944
4) Piper L-4J Grasshopper, Black LC-233 (s/n 45-55233), U.S. Air Force, assigned to the Civil Air Patrol, U.S.A., 1949
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Two injection-moulded kits are supplied in this box and each kit contains 29 parts and four clear parts (the cockpit canopy, open and closed, and an armourglass panel). A comprehensive decal sheet is included.
Colour schemes included in the kit:
1) Lavochkin La-7, White 10 (c/n unknown), 4th Guards Fighter Regiment (GIAP), Red Banner Baltic Fleet (KBF), Soviet Naval Air Force (VVS VMF), Lipovo airfield, Soviet Union, autumn 1944
2) Lavochkin La-7, White 63 (c/n unknown), 813th Fighter Regiment (IAP), Soviet Air Force (VVS KA), East Prussia, Germany, winter 1944/45
3) Lavochkin La-7, White 24 (c/n unknown), 3rd Sq. (АE), 9th Guards Fighter Regiment (GIAP), flown by Maj. A-Kh. Sultan, Soviet Air Force (VVS KA), East Prussia, Germany, early 1945
4) Lavochkin La-7 (3-cannon), Black 69 (c/n unknown), unknown Fighter Regiment, Soviet Air Force (VVS USSR), shown on the occasion of the opening of the Park of Culture and Leisure at Leningrad, Soviet Union, 1947
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Colour schemes included in the kit:
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Colour schemes included in the kit:
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