I-153 Chaika in 1:48 scale

Scale model of I-153 Chaika WWII Soviet Biplane Fighter in 1/48 scale.

• Prototype: I-153, 15th IAP (Fighter Regiment), Lithuania, June 1941
• Model author: Deniss Ignatjev
• Model manufacturer: ICM
• Scale: 1/48
• Status: SOLD OUT

The last and most perfect in N. N. Polikarpov design bureau production biplane fighters family was the I-153. It had gull-shaped upper wing, retractable chassis and more powerful armament with four ShKAS machine guns. Serial planes had M-62 radial engines, late series – more powerful M-63.

The maiden flight was in August 1938. All in all in 1939-1941 it were made 3437 planes. In summer 1941 I-153 “Chaika” (the “Gull”) was the basis of the Soviet Fighter Aviation with I-16 fighters. I-153 were used in combat until mid 1943.

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