Hobby Master 1:72 Air Power Series HA5918
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17F Fresco-C Diecast Model
Soviet Air Force 42nd GvAPIB, Blue 99, Czechoslovakia, Operation Danube 1968

1:72 Scale		Length		Width
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17F Fresco-C		6.25"		5.25"

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Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 Fresco, shown as Blue 99, flew with the 42nd Guards Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment of the Soviet Air Force, a Tannenberg Red Banner unit normally based at Zagan, Poland, with the 4th Tactical Air Army. During Operation Danube, the August 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, the regiment moved to Hradec Kralove airfield with forty MiG-17s and two MiG-15UTI trainers for close air support, alongside the 149th Fighter-Bomber Air Division headquarters. The subsonic MiG-17 was already obsolescent by 1968, but it gave the invasion force a large ground-attack fleet within easy range of the Czechoslovak border.

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17F Fresco-C

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Hobby Master 1:72 Air Power Series

The Hobby Master "1:72 Air Power Series" range presents detailed, ready-made diecast models of military aircraft.

Hobby Master "1:72 Air Power Series" diecast airplanes feature:

• Diecast metal construction with some plastic components.
• Realistic panel lines, antennas, access panels and surface details.
• Pad printed markings and placards that won't fade or peel like decals.
• Presentation stand to display the aircraft "in flight".
• Accurately detailed underside with concealed screwheads.