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NEW HOBBY MASTER 1:48 scale SPITFIRE Mk.IX,PL258, 331 NORWEGIAN SQUADRON HA8321

$ 79.19

Availability: 100 in stock
  • Aircraft Family: Spitfire
  • Condition: New
  • Theme: WWII
  • Scale: 1:48
  • All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
  • Brand: Hobby Master
  • Material: Diecast

    Description

    Up for sale is a brand new Hobby Master 1:48 scale HA8321 Supermarine Spitfire Mk.IX with D-Day victory stripes!  This aircraft is also from the PL258, 331 Norwegian Squadron and restored by the Norwegian Spitfire Foundation!
    In 1944 Spitfire Mk. IX PL258 was built in Castle Bromwich Aircraft Factory and flown by 331 (Norwegian) Squadron's Fenrik (Ensign) Carl Jacob Stousland. On December 29, 1944 the aircraft was on a reconnaissance flight over Germany when it collided with Spitfire PT909 piloted by Sergeant Ole Tilset. Stousland managed to make a belly landing near Tubbergen, Netherlands but the aircraft was a write-off. Tilset was captured but Dutch farmers hid Stousland and after 79 days he managed to reach Allied lines.