Guillow's Grumman TBF Avenger Model Kit

Guillow's Grumman TBF Avenger Model Kit

• P47D Thunderbolt has a 30 1/4" wingspan.
• Series 1000 kits are some of the world's finest scale balsa model kits and contain the best quality materials and instructions that have made Guillow kits the "Best in Balsa"!
• Kits can be built as beautiful scale shelf model or flown (rubber free flight or powered U-Control). Although the fuselages of these models are roomy enough to take simple R/C equipment, no instructions and diagrams are included or available.
• Guillow's - your one source for model plane kits since 1926.
• Made in the USA.

1:32 Scale. 16 1/2" wing span. These easy building kits contain die-cut balsa parts, plastic cowls and canopies, decals, plastic prop, wheels, tissue and a 24-page model building booklet. For ages 10 and up. The Grumman TBF initial production order for 286 planes was placed in the latter part of 1940 and, between 1942 and the end of the 1943, 2, 293 Avenger were built and delivered to the U.S. Navy. It became the Navy standard torpedo-bomber of World War 2 and first saw action on June 4, 1942, at the historic Battle of midway. Used right up to 1954, Avenger also saw service with the Royal Navy, Canadian Royal Navy and the French Aeronavale.