Republic F-47D-40-RA 45-49329 88th Air Base Wing Wright Field Airspace Intercept Constructed with Budd's signature stainless

Constructed with Budd's signature stainless steel carbody

EMD selected this unit as the testbed and prototype for the GP40

These are 1/72 scale decals for Douglas SBD-2P Dauntless 2173

combining the standard USAAC evaluation blue with the bright yellow accent markings that characterized many 1930s Army aircraft

Boeing also marketed the Skyfox as a potential light attack and counter-insurgency (COIN) aircraft

Republic F-47D-40-RA 45-49329 88th Air Base Wing Wright Field Airspace Intercept Constructed with Budd's signature stainlessThese are 1 72 scale decals for Republic F 47D 40 RA Thunderbolt 45 49329, assigned to the 88th Air Base Wing at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, wearing natural metal with an Olive Drab (ANA 613) anti glare panel, buzz number PE 329 on the nose and wing undersurfaces, and the most direct paint scheme in USAF history: "CLEAR WRIGHT FIELD AREA" in bold black lettering along the fuselage. In the postwar years, Wright Field home of the Air Materiel