AIR04100 - Airfix 1/48 Supermarine Spitfire VB - WWWEB10116160

AIR04100 - Airfix 1/48 Supermarine Spitfire VB - WWWEB10116160

Discontinued 

Preowned, Resealed, Mint

The Spitfire Mk V entered service in early 1941. It paired the Mk I airframe with the more powerful Merlin 45 engine, and with more than 6,400 built between 1940 and 1943, it was the most numerous Spitfire mark. The VB carried the "B" wing armament of two 20mm cannon and four machine guns. Tropicalised Mk Vs, fitted with a Vokes air filter under the nose, flew in the defence of Malta and in the desert war.

• Parts moulded in light grey
• Tropical Vokes air filter for the desert version
• Decals for two RAF aircraft:
  • Tropical version, ER220 QJ-R of 92 "East India" Squadron, Desert Air Force, flown by F/O Neville Duke between November 1942 and February 1943
  • U.K. version, LO-W of 602 (City of Glasgow) Squadron, Redhill, May 1942, flown by Sgt Bill Loud and presented to Britain by Queen Salote of Tonga
• Bilingual instruction sheet with aircraft history