Grumman FM-2 Wildcat ‘Training Cats’ Folland

Grumman FM-2 Wildcat ‘Training Cats’ FollandSet contents: plastic parts decals with five markings options Markings options: FM 2 Wildcat, U65, Carrier Aircraft Service Unit (CASU), MCAS Ewa, Hawaii 1944s FM 2 Wildcat, C50, training unit unnown, probably MCAS Florida, 1945 FM 2 Wildcat, LS03 (R), Unit unknown FM 2 Wildcat, NAMU3 1, Naval Air Modification Unit (NAMU), Johnsville, Pennsylvania, September 1946 FM 2 Wildcat, M F 48, CVE 67, USS Solomons, US East Coast, May 1945

Fiodor Polynin

equipped with a Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engine with a two-stage compressor

They were also used in the Mediterranean Theatre of Operations and in the Burma and China campaigns

the first of a new breed of fighter which would go on to patrol Britain's skies for many years following its squadron introduction in July 1944

12 fully equipped troops

While not as glamorous as their flying counterparts

and later production examples included the same armour fitted to the Mk

RAF Coltishall airfield

II airframe

operating over Hainan Island and performing the RAF’s last ever operational sortie by a Spitfire over Malaya on 10th June 1957

September 1946

354th Fighter Group