Italeri 1128 - 1/72 FW 190 D-9 WWII  [IT-1128S]

Period: 2nd World War

Nation: Germany

Model Dim.: 14 cm

Focke-Wulf 190 D-9

The notion of setting up a Junkers Jumo 213A motor (until then mainly utilized on bombers) in a Focke-Wulf 190 airframe was created of a need certainly to enhance the high altitude performance of the aircraft: the A and F variations, actually, experienced a substantial fall in rate above 7,000m. Armed with two 20mm cannon and two 13mm weapons, the D-9 had been straight away a favourite with pilots, whom considered it an aircraft add up to the P-51 Mustang. In its secondary role as a ground hit aircraft, the Dora 9 performed excellently during procedure Bodenplatte, the last stand of third Reich within the Ardennes. About 650-700 D versions are thought to own been made, of which four still exist today.