Hawker Sea Fury FB.11 'Export Edition' Including Dutch Naval markings!

All new moulding. Beautiful kit!

The last in an illustrious line of Hawker piston engined fighters, the Sea Fury entered service with the Royal Navy too late to see operations during WWII, but proved to be one of the fastest propeller driven aircraft ever produced. Attracting plenty of overseas interest, the Sea Fury was also operated in some numbers by the navies of Holland, Australia and Canada, with Australian Sea Fury's making a significant contribution to air operations during the Korean War.

The fantastic new 1/48th Scale Hawker Sea Fury FB.ll (A06106) will feature the impressive detail levels associated with this slightly larger scale of model and will incorporate a number of interesting build options for the modeller to consider. Along with the usual flying and static model configurations available to modellers, the new Sea Fury kit will include the option to have the wings folded for ease of operation on board an aircraft carrier, a feature unique to naval aircraft. The rigors of operation from carrier decks dictated that many naval aircraft were almost over engineered, with components required to be much tougher than would usually be the case with land based aircraft. The use of extremely robust undercarriage legs, arrester hooks and catapult spools were all features of naval aircraft, all of which have been faithfully reproduced on this beautiful kit.


Scheme 1: VW645 Sydney August 1955
Scheme 2: FB11 803 Squadron Royal Canadian Navy 1948
Scheme 3: Sea Fury FB. MK50 no860 Squadron Royal Dutch Navy "Aerobats"