AIR50113 - Airfix - 1/72 Westland Sea King HAR.5 - WWHP113320

AIR50113 - Airfix - 1/72 Westland Sea King HAR.5 - WWHP113320

Preowned, Original seal, Mint

The Sea King is one of the most successful helicopters ever built, developed by Sikorsky as the S-61 and licence-built by Westland with Rolls-Royce Gnome engines. The Royal Navy took it into service as the HAS Mk.1 anti-submarine helicopter, and in 1988, needing a replacement for the Wessex in the search and rescue role, simply stripped the anti-submarine equipment out of the HAS Mk.5 while keeping the Sea Searcher radar. The result was the HAR.5, an excellent SAR platform that worked over water and across the mountains of Scotland and Wales, winching casualties to safety around the clock. This is Airfix's 1/72 gift set boxing with markings for a No. 771 Naval Air Squadron aircraft.

Box contents:

• 105 parts moulded in light grey styrene
• Clear sprue for cockpit and cabin glazing
• Sea Searcher radar dome and dorsal detail
• Main and tail rotor assemblies
• Sponsons, landing gear, and wheels
• Display stand
• Waterslide decal sheet for Sea King HAR.5 XV666/823, No. 771 Naval Air Squadron, RNAS Culdrose 2007
• Six Humbrol acrylic paints (Possibility of paint being dried due to age of kit)
• One tube of Humbrol poly cement
• Two paint brushes
• Illustrated assembly and painting instructions
• Finished model measures 236 mm long with a 262 mm rotor diameter