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Air Force Modelworks can bring these historical aircrafts and ships into life again by making high quality museum type aircraft replicas. Each US Air Force F-80 Shooting Star wood model was hand crafted from the finest kiln of dried Mahogany wood. Every F-80 Shooting Star Air Force model aircraft passes through many stages such as planning, hand crafting, painting, sanding, checking of product and packaging. This F-80 Shooting Star model airplane has a scale of 1/28, a wingspan of 16.7" and fuselage length of 15". Patterns of the US Air Force F-80 Shooting Star wood model are done by our master artisans through thorough researches and creative imagination to produce such patterns.

History:

First flew in January 1944, the F-80 Shooting Star had a fairly conventional design apart from the jet engine and laminar flow wing. The power plant was soon changed to the Allison turbojet. The F-80 was redesignated in 1948 when "P" for "Pursuit" was changed to "F" for "Fighter." This aircraft was a sleek, low-wing monoplane with tricycle landing gear and all round canopy visibility. The F-80 Shooting Star was the first USAF aircraft to exceed 500 mph in level flight, the first American jet airplane to be manufactured in large quantities and it’s also the first USAF jet to be used in combat. A total of just 45 of this variant had been delivered before the end of the war. Of 1,731 F-80s built, 798 were F-80Cs.