Grumman FM-2 Wildcat ‘Training Cats’ FollandSet contents: plastic parts decals with five markings options Markings options: FM 2 Wildcat, U65, Carrier Aircraft Service Unit (CASU), MCAS Ewa, Hawaii 1944s FM 2 Wildcat, C50, training unit unnown, probably MCAS Florida, 1945 FM 2 Wildcat, LS03 (R), Unit unknown FM 2 Wildcat, NAMU3 1, Naval Air Modification Unit (NAMU), Johnsville, Pennsylvania, September 1946 FM 2 Wildcat, M F 48, CVE 67, USS Solomons, US East Coast, May 1945
Fiodor Polynin
equipped with a Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engine with a two-stage compressor
They were also used in the Mediterranean Theatre of Operations and in the Burma and China campaigns
the first of a new breed of fighter which would go on to patrol Britain's skies for many years following its squadron introduction in July 1944
12 fully equipped troops
While not as glamorous as their flying counterparts
and later production examples included the same armour fitted to the Mk
RAF Coltishall airfield
II airframe
operating over Hainan Island and performing the RAF’s last ever operational sortie by a Spitfire over Malaya on 10th June 1957
September 1946
354th Fighter Group
