Sky Guardians Sky Giuardians Hawker Sea Fury T20 WG655 1/72 Diecast Model

1/72 Scale approx 6.25 ins / 16 cms wingspan

Diecast model by Sky Guardians of Hawker Sea Fury T20S WG655 in the colours she carried when she was part of the Royal Navy Historic Aircraft Flight.

WG655 was delivered to the Royal Navy in March 1954 and spent much of her service life with the Station Flight at RNAS Eglinton being struck of charge in 1956 having only flown for 18 months.
In 1957 Hawker purchased WG655 for refurbishment selling her to the Federal West German Goverment. She was delivered to Bonn in 1963 painted bright red and registered D-CACU operating mainly as a target tug until retirement in 1975 following which she was presented to the Royal Navy Historic Flight who formally accepted the aircraft in June 1976.
WG655 was used as a trainer for the single seater TF956 and also became a regular participant at UK airshows carrying the colours she wore when in service with the Station Flight at RNAS Eglinton. 
On 14 July 1990 the engine failed en route to a display at Silverstone and the ensuing forced landing caused extensive damage which resulted in the aircraft being deemed beyond repair. The hulk was sold moving initially to New Zealand, where it was robbed of some parts to help restore another Sea Fury, and later to the USA. The part rebuilt airframe eventually landed up at Sea Fury specialists Sanders Aeronautics and flew again in May 2005. The aircraft is currently back in the UK with the Fighter Collection at Duxford.

The model is brand new boxed stock. The undercarriage is fixed down but there is a display stand in the box as well.