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HA7422 Corgi   FW 190A-4 - Trautloft, JG.54, Eastern Front 1/48 Dam Box £ 0.00
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  Hobby Master 1/48 Air Power Series HA7422: FW 190A-4, Oberstleutnant Hannes Trautloft", Geshwaderkommodore JG.54, Eastern Front, early 1943. Box is lightly damaged, model is new.

Length 7.25 inches Wingspan 8.5 inches

Flying a Bf-109 during the Spanish Civil War Hannes Trautlouft scored his first five victories. When WW II began Trautloft was with 2./JG 77 and participating in the Polish Campaign and scoring his first WW II victory. In 1939 he was promoted to Hauptmann and Gruppenkommandeur of 1./JG 20. In 1940 JG 54 was newly formed and Trautloft was appointed Kommodore. JG 54 took part in Operation Barbarossa where he scored his 50th victory on February 15, 1943 flying an Fw-190A-4. His total victories were 58.

In 1937 even though the Me-109 was a very capable fighter the Reichsluftfahrtministeriun (RLM) or Reich Air Ministry was worried that future foreign designs might surpass its performance so they called for submissions of designs. Kurt Tank won the competition with his radical use of an air-cooled radial engine that he dubbed the Fw-190 Würger (Butcher Bird). There were many skeptics who believed this new aircraft would surpass the performance of the Me-109. However when the Fw-190 entered combat in the summer of 1941 it already was Germany’s premiere piston-powered WWII fighter. Over 20,000 of all variants of the Fw-190 were built with 13,291 of these being of the 9 different “A” variants.



 
 
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