New Boxed Corgi 1:72nd Scale Supermarine Spitfire Mk.IXC Model.

Aviation Archive Limited Edition.

Constructed as a Mk.IXc variant at the famous Castle Bromwich "Shadow Factory" in early 1944, Spitfire ML407 would go on to write her name in history as the first Allied fighter to claim a Luftwaffe aircraft shot down following the Allied landings on D-Day, not to mention an impressive post war flying career which continues to today. 

She would fly operationally throughout the final months of the Second World War, serving with six different squadrons and amassing 176 combat sorties and 319 hours of combat flying in the process. She was delivered to No.485 (New Zealand) Squadron on 29th April 1944, where she would become the aircraft assigned to Flying Officer Johnnie Houlton in preparation for operations covering the D-Day landings and operating from RAF Selsey. 

On D-Day, Houlton caught sight of a Junkers Ju88 attempting to find cover in the clouds, and having adjusted his new gyroscopic gunsight for a longer distance shot, gave the Luftwaffe aircraft short bursts from around 500 yards. The Ju88 burst into flames and plummeted earthwards, with the crew taking to their parachutes. Houlton and Spitfire ML407 had just become the first Allied pilot/aircraft combination to shoot down an enemy aircraft following the D-Day landings.  

    

This Aviation Archive Limited Edition comes complete with it's certificate, rotating propeller, choice of raised or lowered undercarriage, pilot figure and display stand.

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