WOW357 Fiat G.50 Fighter

£577.50

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Category: mothballed

Description

The Fiat G.50 was Italy’s first single seat monoplane all metal aeroplane. It first entered service in 1938 and saw service in the Spanish Civil War where it performed well against the Communist aircraft fielded against it. Armed with only 2 machine guns the Fiat G.50 suffered against the much more heavily armed and nimbler Hurricanes/Spitfires of the RAF during the Battle of Britain. Relocated back to the Mediterranean, the Fiat G.50 soldiered on due to the lack of a suitable replacement, but in the hands of an experienced pilot could compete with Allied adversaries like the Hurricane and P-40’s. Its greatest heyday came about during the Finnish Winter War and then the Continuation War where Fiat G.50’s proved worthwhile adversaries of the Soviet forces, on one day shooting down 13 out of 15 Soviet type SB bombers. The kill ratio for Fiat G.50’s in this theatre was in the region of 33/1 in their favour.

Our 1/30 scale Mahogany aircraft model is in a striking pale yellow colour and was flown by Sergente Maggiore Aldo Buvoli, an Ace credited with shooting down 4 x RAF Blenheims on a single day over Malta in 1941.

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