Hobby Master 1:48 Air Power Series Diecast Model

Supermarine Spitfire Mk.Vb – BL973/RY- S, Stanislav Fejfar, RAF No. 313 Squadron, May 1942

1:48 Scale.  Length: 7.5".  Wingspan: 9.2"


Limited production of approximately 350 models worldwide

Stanislav Fejfar served in the Czech Air Force and in 1939 escaped to France when Germany took over the country. With the French Groupe de Chasse I/6 he scored four victories before going to the RAF when France fell. He was posted to the No. 310 Squadron where he damaged three aircraft and shot down one. On May 17, 1942 Fejfar was escorting Boston’s on a raid of a radio station in Wissant in France when he was shot down and killed. Fejfar had become Hptm Josef Priller’s seventy second victim.

The Supermarine Spitfire is a British single-seat fighter aircraft flown by the Royal Air Force and many other Allied countries during World War II and into the 1950s. First flown on March 5, 1936 the Spitfire entered operational service with the RAF in 1938. It served in several roles including interceptor, photo-reconnaissance, fighter bomber, carrier-based fighter and trainer. The Spitfire was built in many variants using several wing configurations. It was produced in greater numbers than any other British aircraft and the only British fighter in continuous production throughout the war. When production ended in February 1948, 20,351 Spitfires of all variants had been built.


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