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Soviet military airfield 1980s (Mikoyan MiG-29 "9-13", APA-50M (ZiL-131), ATZ-5 and Soviet PAG-14 Airfield Plates) Diorama Set Soviet aviation in the period of the 1980s structurally consisted of long-range aviation, front-line aviation, military transport aviation and army aviation. MiG-29 fighters were mostly part of front-line aviation, and were designed to conduct air battles and strike ground targets. For basing aircraft, the USSR Air Force had an extensive airfield network, which included fixed airfields with concrete runways and protected shelters. Dispersal airfields with prepared soil strips were also created. A large number of specialized vehicles were created to service aircraft on the ground, among which was the APA-50M. Various cars with[+] More...
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 | Print Scale - PSL72184 - 1:72 | Sukhoi Su-24 1. Su-24 "Fencer-C" Unit: 735th BAP, Soviet AF. Serial: 10. Karshi airfield. The aircraft equipped with OFAB-250-270. 2. Su-24 "Fencer-C" Unit: 149th GvBAP, Soviet AF. Serial: 40. Crew: Sub.Col.V.A.Markin, Cpt.A.Saveliev. Typical load of FAB-500M-62 bombs. Aircraft of 149th GvBAP flew missions to Afghanistan in 1984 from Kokaidy and Khanabad in 1988-1989. 3. Su-24 "Fencer-C" Unit: 149th GvBAP, Soviet AF. Serial: 42 Karshi airfield, October-December 1988. The aircraft equipped with FAB-1500M-46 bombs. Aircraft flew missions over Afghanistan. 4. Su-24M Unit: 143rd BAP, Soviet AF. Serial: 20. Kopet-Nari. 5. Su-24 M the air force of Russia, the Krasnodar military of the United flight and technical College, summer 1993. The paint scheme has provided V. P. Pupkov. 6. Su-24M Unit: 455th BAP. Serial: 29. Voronezh, 2002. 7. Su-24M Serial: 44 . 4th trainer center, Lipetsk, 2002. 8. Su-24MK Serial: 24246. Circa 1991. 9. Su-24MK Unit: 72 Sqn, IRIAF. Serial: 3-6810 Shiraz AB. 10. Su-24MK Serial: KX-88. 11. Su-24M Unit: 455th BAP, 16th VA. Serial: 26 Bunchuk airfield, Voronezh. On 28th April 1998. 45th anniversary on 455th BAP. Note: advertisement stick Pepsi-Cola on the radar cover. On 29th May 1998 16th VA was disband. More | Aircraft decals (military) | Catalogue | £15.99 | |
 | Print Scale - PSL72293 - 1:72 | Tupolev SB Part-2 1. SB-2M-100A Serial: '0' . Advancing German troops captured this late production SB 2M-100A in the Summer 1941. It is camouflaged in Medium Green upper surfaces and Light Blue undersurfaces. 2. SB-2M-103 (SBbis) Unit: 367th BAP Serial: 304 Crimean Front, Autumn 1942. 3. SB-2M-103 (SBbis) Serial: 2. This late production SB 2M-103 was assigned to a VVS Bomber Aviation Regiment in middle of 1941. It is painted in the Medium Green over Light Blue camouflage typical of many late SBs at the time. 4. SB-2M-100 Unit: 5th AE, 44th BAP. Serial: 3. This aircraft was lost on January 30th, 1940, following an accident caused by pilot error, while operating against Finnish forces in the Winter War 1939-1940. 5. SB-2M-100. Unit: 7th SAD. Serial: 4. Riga area, Summer 1941. 6. SB-2M-100. Unit: 137th BAP, 14th Army AF. Serial: 6. This aircraft took part in the 'anti-airfield' raids in Northern Norway in Winter 1941-1942. 7. SB-2M-100. Unit: 13th SBAP. Serial: 1. Western Special Military District. This a/c was shot down by German ground fire at Vitebsk area in August 1941. 8. SB-2M-103 (SBbis). Unusual camouflage scheme. 9. SB-2M-100. Unit: 1st MTAB, Baltic Fleet. Serial: 10. Circa 1941. Aluminium overall. 10. SB-2M-100A. Serial: 4. Soviet crews hand-painted Green patches over the upper surfaces of this natural metal airplane in middle of 1941. German fighters damaged this bomber soon after it took off on 22nd June 1941, when German forces invaded the Soviet Union. It made a 'wheels up' landing after the aerial battle. 11. SB-2M-103 (SBbis). Unit: 24th SBAP. Serial: 4. This aircraft was shot from on December 1st, 1940 over Viipuri (now Vyborg) by ground fire. 12. SB-2M-100. Unit: unknown. Serial: 8. Probably invasion to Poland in Autumn 1939. More | Aircraft decals (military) | Catalogue | £15.99 | |
 | Print Scale - PSL72296 - 1:72 | Avro 683 Lancaster 1. Lancaster B.Mk.I. Unit: 16th TRAO, Belomorsk Military Flotilla. Serial: 01 (ex ME559). Crew commander - V.Sh.Evdokimov, navigator - V.Ya.Andreev. One of the six Lancasters abandoned by British at Soviets airfields in Archangelsk region. Two of them were repaired in served with Soviets. This Lancaster was unarmament and used for transport and patrol since January 1945. 2. Lancaster B.Mk.I. Unit: 44 (Rhodesian) Sqn, RAF. Serial: KM-O (R5540). RAF Waddington, England. This aircraft was lost in a January 1943 crash. 3. Lancaster B.Mk.I. Unit: 9 Sqn, RAF. Serial: WS-Y (LM220). The depicted Avro Lancaster Mk.I flew with 9th Bomber Squadron in Bardney. It was equipped with extended drop gear to hitch the 'Tallboy' heavy bomb. This airplane took part in two attacks of German battleship Tirpitz which was anchored in Kaafjord in Norway, being piloted by F/Lt W.Tweddle. 4. Lancaster B.Mk.I "Jak Bus". Unit: 300 Sqn, RAF. Serial: BH-B (PB705) 5. Lancaster B.III "Uncle Joe" / "100 UP TONIGHT". Unit: 463 Sqn, RAAF. Serial: JO-U (ED611). Waddington, September 1944. 6. Lancaster B.Mk.I "Uncle Joe Again!". Unit: 463 Sqn, RAAF. Serial: JO-U (RF141). Skellingthorpe, Lincolnshire, UK, winter 1945. 7. Lancaster B.I Unit: 12 Sqn, RAF. Serial: PH-V (W4794). Wickenby, Lincolnshire, UK, 1942. [B.I/III] More | Aircraft decals (military) | Catalogue | £21.99 | |
 | Print Scale - PSL72318 - 1:72 | Aero L-29 Delfin 1. L-29. Serial: 104. Air Force Traning College at Barnaul, 1972. 2. L-29. Seria: 08. Zaporozhye, 1996. 3. L-29A "Akrobat". Serial: 0517 (c/n 390517). 4. L-29. Serial: 0105 (c/n.290105). The a/c served with Aviation College at Presov, it bearing emblem of black owl sitting on the yellow crescent. 5. L-29. Serial: 0902 (c/n.490902). Production L-29 of Air Force Training College at Kosice entered service with standard 'Soviet' colour scheme of natural metal finish with red trim and bands. 6. L-29. Unit: VSZ-103. Serial: 0108 (c/n.290108). Military Research an Test Establishment (VSZ-103) at Prague-Kbely. On this a/c was tested special antireflex (low visibility) paint. 7. L-29. Unit: 2.SBoLK. Serial: 2845 (+3404). Malacky AB. 8. L-29RS. Serial: 715 (c/n.792407). Training College at Nan-Chang. 9. L-29. Unit: Pilots and Technical School 'Killian Gyorgy'. Serial: 374 (c/n 591374). Pilots and Technical School 'Killian Gyorgy' at Szolnok, in painting scheme used during early 1970s. 10. L-29. Unit: unknown. Serial: 08. 11. L-29. Unit: GI Training Regiment. Serial: 82. Pleven AB. 12. L-29. Unit: c/n 591233. L-29 c/n 591233 originally operated by 1st Training Regiment received new paint during the overhaul after the service in Nigerian AF, when overhanded to Ghana Air Force in 1989. 13. L-29 Serial: U-510 (c/n 993328). The a/c operated from Entebe Air Force Base. The later Udandian camouflage scheme. More | Aircraft decals (military) | Catalogue | £15.99 | |
 | Print Scale - PSL72362 - 1:72 | Polikarpov R-5 1. R-5T. Torpedo-bomber, Moscow, Spring, 1934. The first produced aircraft of this type. 2. R-5. Serial: 3.Moscow military district. 3. R-5. Serial: 22. The aircraft of training brigade of Air Fleet academy. Moscow, 1933. 4. R-5SSS. Unit: RKKA Air Force. Serial: 66. Winter War. Winter 1939-1940. 5. R-5. Unit: 7th Separate Corps detachment. Serial: 3. Pilot commander of detachment D.Nikishin. Pavlograd, 1936. 6. R-5Sh. Unit: 15th ShAP, 60th air brigade, ZabVO Exercises at Chita area, 1938. Most probably this is the regiment commander aircraft. 7. R-5. Unit: 37th BLAE, 454th air brigade. Serial: 4. Pilot - L.G.Petrushevskiy. Middle Eastern military district, August 1934. 8. R-5Sh. Unit: 12th ShAP, VVS of OKDVA. Serial: 5. Pilot - Ivanov N.N. Lazarevo airfield, August 1939. 9. R-5. Serial: 4. Sinkiang Aviation School, 1935. 10. R-5. Serial: 22. This aircraft was used as trainer. Circa 1930. 11. R-5SSS Unit: 15th Group. Serial: RR-21. 1 Escuadrilla de Ataque Nocturno; December 1937. 12. R-5Sh. Unit: Mongolian Air Corps. Nomonhan Conflict, Mongolia, 1939. Originally this unit was part of the Soviet 150th mixed air regiment (VVS RKKA). However some sources said that some aircraft were under command of Mongolian pilot Bor served with Mongolian Air Corps and wore Mongolian insignias. 13. R-5. Unit: Tatbikat Bolugu-Eskishehir. Serial: 1. October 1933. Immediately after the ceremonies of the 10th anniversary of the Turkish Republic. Most probably the emblem underwing and the inverted flag were painted in Russia, before the aircraft arrived. Squadron of Polikarpov R-5's and a Tupolev ANT-9 arrived Ankara to participate the 10th anniversary ceremonies on 29 October 1933. After the ceremonies 3 R-5 and the sole ANT-9 were presented to Turkey as a symbol of Turko-Russian friendship, cooperation and good relations (The Soviet Government under the leadership of Lenin helped Turkey a lot during our War of Independence). More | Aircraft decals (military) | Catalogue | £15.99 | |
 | Print Scale - PSL72407 - 1:72 | Mikoyan MiG-29 "Fulcrum" 1. MIG-29 (9-12) part: 1-I AE, 120 8th IAP, 23-I WA, ZabVO number: 01 (p/n 2960515803), 1998, Domna Airfield. 2. MIG-29 (9-13) part: 2 Squadron 'Moscow ', 115th GvIAP number: 44 SOVIET AIR FORCE base near the city of Termez, near the Afghan border, Uzbekistan 1990. 3. MIG-29ub (9-51) part 2: AE, I-120th GvIAP, 14 Army Air Force and air defence number: 75 (c/n. 50903026969), 1999, Domna Airfield. 4. MiG-29 k Part: not available number: 311 First deck flying machine. 29 anchors with the star on the left side on landings-September 1, 1990. 5. MiG-29 (9-13) 290-series Number: 51 MiG-29 (9-13) 290 Series, vol. 1990. BN 51, Russian Air Force, Boris Gleb. In February 2000, the aircraft, together with the other side (the MiG-29 BN 47 and 23, and the MiG-29UB b.n.70) was transferred to the training regiment in Borisoglebsk (2 AE 120 IAP, a / d Domna), is at the time of a structural subdivision of Armavir Military Aviation Institute. As a result, once the reform of military educational institutions in 2002 established a single Summer Institute - Krasnodar VAI named Hero of the Soviet Union, AK Serov, which consisted of Armavir and Balashov Military Aviation Institute and Sts Training Center, 2001-2002 years. board 51 among others 'Borisoglebsk' 29's was transferred to Yerevan, where he continued his further service. The aircraft is depicted as of August 2001. 6. MIG-29 (9-13) part: not available number: 44 AA Ukraine, Gostomel airport, August 1992. 7. MIG-29 (9-13) part 40: wing number: 35 Vasilkov. 8. MIG-29ub part: 3 FS, 2 TW number: 61 Crimea, Kirov airbase, 1995. 9. MIG-29 "Kis" part: Orlik 2, PKW number: 4120 Estonia, 2008 g. PKW. 10. MIG-29 of the 31Sk Wing: 31/1 Sqn number: 6930 Airbase Fajrford. RIAT-98, 1998. 11. MIG-29ub : Polku Lotnictwa Mysliwskiego "Warszawa" Room: 15 base of Minsk-Mazowiecki. A similar camouflage are: 42. 12. MIG-29 Parts:? Sqn, IrAF number: 29060 Habbaniyah Airbase, 1990-1991 . 13. MIG-29 (9-13) number: 19. More | Aircraft decals (military) | Catalogue | £15.99 | |
 | Squadron Signal - SQS10238 - No Scale | Douglas A-20 HAVOC IN ACTION Doyle. The Douglas A-20 Havoc was a light bomber, attack, and intruder aircraft of World War II. Used by the American Army Air Forces, nearly one-third of the aircraft served with the Soviet military, while many other A-20s fought with the RAF. Taking its first operational shape on the eve of the outbreak of the war in Europe, the 7B prototype actually crashed with a French observer aboard, kicking off a scandal in still-isolationist America where military aircraft were not to be exported. U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt pressed for a change in that restrictive rule and the French, impressed by the plane's rugged dependability and maneuverability, proceeded to place orders for 100 of the aircraft, albeit with modifications that resulted in the DB-7 version. Even before shipments began in November 1939, Paris had increased its order by another 170 aircraft. Many of those, however, found their way into the British RAF, which flew them under the nickname Boston, after the fall of France in June 1940. The U.S. Army Air Corps issued its first contracts for the aircraft they called the A-20 and A-20A, in May 1939, these were only delivered during the months from late 1940 through much of 1941. A dozen A-20As had recently arrived in Pearl Harbor when the Japanese surprise attack destroyed two of them on the ground. Modifications of the design continued and it was after the U.S. entry into the war when the A-20C version, produced by Douglas and Boeing, first were accepted. Of the first 515 A-20Cs, 108 were retained by the U.S. Army Air Forces, while 407 were shipped off to the Soviet Union. Numerous versions of the aircraft followed. About half of the A-20G were sent to the Soviet Union, as were many of the A-20H. In fact the Soviet air forces had more A-20s than the USAAF. Illustrated with 192 vintage photographs and detailed line drawings. 80 pages. (now out of print so be quick!) More | Aircraft books | Catalogue | £14.99 |
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