MODEL FEATURES:

Model Features:
Retractable Landing Gear
Folding Wings
Detailed Cockpit
Moving Control Surfaces
Durable Plastic Construction
Functional Canopy
Articulating Pilot Figure
Fully finished, painted and ready for display
Wingspan 28.5"
Length 21"
F6F-3 "Cat Mouth", VF-27 stationed with USS Princenton. The Grumman F6F Hellcat was a fighter plane descended from the earlier F4F Wildcat, but was a completely new design sharing only a familial resemblance to the Wildcat. Some tagged it as "Wildcat's big brother". The Hellcat proved to be the most successful aircraft in naval history, destroying 5,163 aircraft in service with the US Navy and US Marine Corps, plus 52 with the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm during World War II. Postwar, the Hellcat aircraft was rapidly phased out of frontline service, finally retiring in 1954 as a night-fighter in composite squadrons.