Airfix 14001A 1/24 North American Aviation P-51D Mustang

This is a plastic model kit, which comes unassembled and unpainted. So glue, model paints and other basic modelling tools are additionally required.

Skill: 4
Flying Hours: 6
Number of Parts: 226
Dimensions (mm): L409 x W469

The P-51D incorporated several improvements and became the most numerous variation with nearly 8,000 being built. The most obvious change compared to the predecessors was a new 'bubble-top' canopy that greatly improved the pilots vision. This type of Mustang also received the new K-14 gunsight, this increased the .50cal machine guns from four to six. It was also fitted with a simplified the ammunitions feed system which considerably reduced gun jams.

The P-51D came to Europe and arrived in large numbers during the spring of 1944, becoming the USAAF's primary long range escort fighter. The versatile Mustang also served as a fighter-bomber and reconnaissance aircraft. Few Luftwaffe aircraft could match the P-51D, and by the end of the war the Mustang has destroyed 4,950 enemy aircraft; more than any other USAAF fighter in Europe.