AF018-C
Consignment
This is a Consignment sale item we are offering. It comes in its original box and is in like new condition.
King & Country's AF018 Curtiss P40 Flying Tiger
Originally intended to be part of very large order going to Britain’s Royal Air Force, 100 of the planes were separated out for the Flying Tigers in China.
Still sporting British camouflage they were then adorned with the famous “Shark’s Teeth” insignia and a cartoon flying tiger courtesy of the Walt Disney Studio!
This aircraft is in the personal #88 markings of former USMC pilot Kenneth A.Jernstedt who shot down 10.5 Japanese aircraft while flying and fighting with the “Tigers”.
Planned Production of 250.
In 1941 and ’42 a bunch of 90 American fighter pilots were formed into the “1st American Volunteer Group" under the command of a former U.S. Army Air Corps officer called Claire Lee Chennault. Putting his men into 3 x pursuit squadrons and using the Curtiss P40 Chennault created a legend…”The Flying Tigers”.
In a relatively short time they had racked-up over 300 enemy aircraft shot down with the loss of a very small number of their own.