AIR483 - Airfix 1/72 Douglas Dakota - WWHP111600

AIR483 - Airfix 1/72 Douglas Dakota - WWHP111600

Preowned, Resealed, Mint

The Douglas C-47 Skytrain — known as the Dakota in British and Commonwealth service — was the most widely used Allied transport aircraft of the Second World War, serving in every theatre from supply drops to paratrooper operations. On D-Day alone, over 800 C-47s dropped paratroopers of the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions over Normandy. Post-war the type entered commercial service with airlines worldwide, including Silver City Airways whose cross-Channel car ferry operation became one of the most distinctive civil aviation ventures of the 1950s. Airfix first tooled this kit in 1960; kit #483 is among the earliest boxings and is notable for offering both a wartime military and a civil marking option — an unusual choice for the era.

Box Contents:

• Injection-moulded plastic sprues, moulded in dark grey
• Clear sprue (cockpit and cabin windows)
• Paratrooper figures
• Airline steward figure
• Polystyrene cement (tube)
• Waterslide decal sheet — 2 marking options:
  • USAAF C-47 military scheme (olive drab, invasion stripes)
  • Silver City Airways civil scheme — G-AMYV, white over aluminium with blue cheat line
• Instruction sheet

Series 4 | Vintage tooling (1960). Paint required, not included.