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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 P-40 Warhawk, AVG, Flying Tigers Mahogany Wood Model Airplane was hand crafted from the finest kiln of dried Mahogany wood. Every P-40 Warhawk, AVG, Flying Tigers Air Force Mahogany Wood Model Plane passes through many stages such as planning, hand crafting, painting, sanding, checking of product and packaging. This P-40 Warhawk, AVG, Flying Tigers model airplane has a scale of 1/25, a wingspan of 17.8" and fuselage length of 15.8". Patterns of the US Air Force P-40 Warhawk, AVG, Flying Tigers Mahogany Wood Model Aircraft are done by our master artisans through thorough researches and creative imagination to produce such patterns.

History:

The P-40 Warhawk was certainly one of the most controversial fighters to serve in quantity during the World War II. Many US volunteer pilots equipped with P-40s, went to help the Chinese in their struggle against the Japanese in 1942, where they became known as the 'Flying Tigers' (because of their uniquely painted aircraft). This group later became part of the USAAF proper, and P-40s were thereafter used widely in the Pacific. Both the Flying Tigers in China and the RAF squadrons in the Middle East had their P-40Bs replaced by P-40Es. The AVG after continuous operation, was down to some twenty P-40Bs by March 1942, when some thirty P-40Es were ferried to China by air from Accra, in Africa.