Airfix Grumman TBM-3 Avenger 1/72 297 / 02017-4 / 03033-9 Plastic Model Kit Vintage

Vintage 1/72 Airfix kit of the Grumman TBM-3 Avenger, the late-production version built by General Motors for the US Navy. The kit includes the characteristic powered rear gun turret, retractable undercarriage, arrestor hook and underwing rocket armament. The Avenger entered service in 1942 as a carrier-based torpedo bomber and became one of the most important US naval attack aircraft of the Second World War, with almost 10,000 aircraft produced. The TBM-3 was powered by the Wright R-2600 radial engine and saw extensive service in the Pacific.