FW190A-4 Luftwaffe, JG 1, Woensdrecht, Holland, October 1942
| Model manufacturer: | Hobby Master Aircraft |
| Order code: | HA7423 |
| Scale: | 1:48 |
| Material: | Combined (Metal / Plastic) |
| EAN: | 4895173409097 |
| Weight: | 0.8 kg |
| Registration number: | 6 |
| Dimensions: | 19.1×22.3 cm (L×W) |
| Air company: | Luftwaffe |
| Aircraft manufacturer: | Focke-Wulf |
Product description
Reich Air Ministry for submissions for a new modern fighter and Kurt Tank won the
competition with his radical use of an air-cooled radial engine that he dubbed the Fw-190 performance but when the Fw-190 entered combat in the summer of 1941 it already was Germany’s premiere piston-powered WWII fighter. Over 20,000 of all variants of the Fw-190 were built with 13,291 of these being of the 9 different “A” variants.
Fw-190A-4 5533 Yellow 6 was assigned to Oberleutnant Wolfgang Leonhardt, 6./JG 1. He scored his first victory, a Spitfire on June 19, 1942. Late in 1942 JG 1 became involved in the Defense of the Reich. On October 31, 1942 Yellow 6 was slightly damaged during a crash landing and was repaired. Leonhardt scored a second victory on December 6, 1942 and his third on December 13, 1942. On January 22, 1943 he scored 2 more victories but on February 4, 1943 he was shot down by a B-17.
