{"product_id":"academy-us-air-force-c-54-skymaster-transport-aircraft-pkay12652","title":"Academy Us Air Force C-54 Skymaster Transport Aircraft PKAY12652","description":"US Air Force C-54 Skymaster Transport Aircraft.\n\nThe Douglas C-54 Skymaster was a four-engine transport aircraft developed from the civilian DC-4, designed to provide long-range heavy transport for the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War Two. Used extensively in the Pacific, European, and China-Burma-India theatres, transporting troops, equipment, and fuel, often over hostile territory.\n\nAfter the war the C-54 flew sustained high-frequency supply missions in the Berlin Airlift, along with Douglas Dakota, Avro York and Short Sunderland types, and formed the basis for later long-range transport designs.\n\nReissued Minicraft kit. 4 sprues plus clear parts. Choice of markings for 6 aircraft:\n(1) C-54 of the ATC (Air Transport Command), USAF, 1943.\n(2) C-54 of the ATC (Air Transport Command), USAF, 1944-45.\n(3) VC-54C Sacred Cow, the first U.S. presidential aircraft, used for President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s flight to the Yalta Conference in Crimea in 1945.\n(4) C-54B EW-999 (43-14126), used for the flight of the Prime Minister of Great Britain, Sir Winston Churchill, to the Yalta Conference in 1945.\n(5) VC-54E 44-9027, \"Bataan II\", personal flight of 1st Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, General Douglas McArthur, used for his arrival in Japan, 1945.\n(6) Air America, C-54G N2168, operated on regional missions between Korea, Japan, and Vietnam during the early 1960s.\n\nBox code: 12652.\nBox description: USAF C-54 Skymaster.\n\n1:144 scale plastic model kit from Academy, requires paint and glue.","brand":"Academy Models","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56566111830389,"sku":"PKAY12652","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/4590\/3920\/files\/pkay12652_20us_20air_20force_20c-54_20skymaster_20transport_20aircraft-42039-extra-large.jpg?v=1767632823","url":"https:\/\/accessmodels.co.uk\/products\/academy-us-air-force-c-54-skymaster-transport-aircraft-pkay12652","provider":"Access Models","version":"1.0","type":"link"}