Gearbox Collectible Diecast Airco DH4 British Military version 1:47 Scale for Sale

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Gearbox Collectible Diecast Airco DH4 British Military version 1:47 Scale For Sale

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Gearbox Collectible Diecast Airco DH4 British Military version 1:47 Scale:
$113.71

Gearbox Collectible Diecast Model Aircraft

Scale 1:47

RFC World War 1

De Havilland DH4 1918

Precision model

Wood Grain Propeller

Hand painted Pilot

Detailed Instrument panel

A limited edition Airco DH4 die-cast replica airplane by Gearbox Collectibles. This 1:47-scale biplane depicts a 1918 Airco DH4 with British Royal Air Force roundels. The box is marked ‘One in Five Thousand’ and ‘Item #04581’.

The Airco DH.4 is a British two-seat biplane day bomber of the First World War. It was designed by Geoffrey de Havilland (hence "DH") for Airco, and was the first British two-seat light day-bomber capable of defending itself.

It was designed and developed specifically as a bomber, a well as aerial reconnaissance missions. The DH.4 was to have been powered by the new 160 hp (120 kW) Beardmore Halford Pullinger (BHP) engine, but problems with that resulted in numerous other engines being used, perhaps the best of which was the 375 hp (280 kW) Rolls-Royce Eagle engine. The DH.4 first flew in August 1916 and it entered operational service in France on 6 March 1917 less than a year later. The majority were manufactured as general purpose two-seaters in the United States for the American expeditionary forces in France.

Following the Armistice of 11 November 1918, many DH.4s were sold to civil operators where it was found to be particularly useful as a mailplane. Early commercial passenger airplane service in Europe was initiated with modified variants of the DH-4. War-surplus DH-4s became key aircraft in newly emerging air forces throughout the world. The U.S. Army later had several companies re-manufacture its remaining DH.4s to DH.4B standard and they operated the type into the early 1930s.