Curtiss BFC-2 Goshawk
Item Number:
RSM92213
RSM92213
Manufacturer
RS Models
RS Models
Scale:
1:72
1:72
On April 16, 1932, the US Navy ordered two prototypes of a new shipboard fighter named XF11C-1 and XF11C-2 with a 700 hp Wright R-1820-78 radial engine.
The R-1820-78 Cyclone and the mixed structure of the was completed.
The fourth aircraft under the contract was completed with manually retractable landing gear as the XF11C-3 and was subsequently renamed XBF2C-1 in March 1934 with the introduction of the fighter-bomber category.
At the same time the F11C-2s were renamed BFC-2s.
Armament consisted of two 7.62 mm Browning machine guns and could carry a single bomb of up to 227 kg or four 51 kg bombs.
The BFC-2 remained in US Navy service until 1938.
Plastic model kit
Scale 1:72
unbuilt / unpainted
The R-1820-78 Cyclone and the mixed structure of the was completed.
The fourth aircraft under the contract was completed with manually retractable landing gear as the XF11C-3 and was subsequently renamed XBF2C-1 in March 1934 with the introduction of the fighter-bomber category.
At the same time the F11C-2s were renamed BFC-2s.
Armament consisted of two 7.62 mm Browning machine guns and could carry a single bomb of up to 227 kg or four 51 kg bombs.
The BFC-2 remained in US Navy service until 1938.
Plastic model kit
Scale 1:72
unbuilt / unpainted
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