The Fleet Air Arm surmounted the difficulties that initially made this a very difficult carrier aircraft and transformed it into a winner. The classic gull wing shape of this extremely powerful and very effective late war fighter bomber is captured in detail in this diecast model.

This is a Limited Edition of just 900 models worldwide.

Don Sheppard was the only Fleet Air Arm Corsair Ace of WWII.

Applying to join the Fleet Air Arm at just 18 years old, Canadian pilot Donald Sheppard made his first operational sorties in support of Britain’s attempts to destroy the German battleship Tirpitz at the end of March 1944. He was aboard his home carrier HMS Victorious as she later traded the icy waters of the North Sea for a new assignment in the Far East, where the Indian Ocean saw Sheppard develop from a talented novice pilot into an air ace, one of only two Canadian Navy aces and the Fleet Air Arm’s only Corsair ace of the Second World War. 

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July 4, 1945 - A Toronto pilot of the Fleet Air Arm, Lieut. Donald J. Sheppard, Weybourne Cres., has shot down his fourth Japanese plane in the recent British Pacific Fleet attacks on the Ryukyu Islands in the Pacific. Lieut Sheppard, whose first operation with the Fleet Air Arm was in the attack on the German battle ship Tirpitz, bagged the Japanese plane after a 20-mile chase at 20,000 feet. The enemy plane blew up as Sheppard closed in and he was going so fast that he flew through the flames of the exploding plane, burning the elevators and tail of his Corsair.

This is a detailed diecast model (1/72) in its livery as it flew from HMS Victorious during the Battle of Okinawa on the 4th of May 1945.