Wingspan: 20.9"
Model length: 17.5"
Code: GM07028

NOW AVAILABLE from Mastercraft Collection's Big Wings Series, features BIG B-25B Mitchell Doolittle Mahogany desktop model airplane. If you've wanted a more prominent and dominant model for your collection, then this series is for you. These airplane replicas are REALLY HUGE, bigger than you've come to expect; and with our Direct factory prices, you'll get a lot more value and model for your money. Words and pictures alone are not enough - you just have to see and own own for yourself to know how BIG these desktop model airplanes are!

Presenting the Big Wings Series BIG model of the B-25B Mitchell twin-engine bomber - complete with handpainted panel lines and handcarved control surfaces! Decked out in the "Doolittle Raider" scheme of 1942, this B-25B looks like it just took off from the deck of the USS Hornet (CV-8) on the first American counterstrike of World War II. It will surely add value to your World War II aircraft collection!

This quality museum model is handcrafted by the Mastercraftmens who are making models for over 30 years now.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The North American B-25 Mitchell was an American twin-engined medium bomber manufactured by North American Aviation. It was used with devastating effect against German and Japanese targets in every combat theater of World War II. The aircraft was named the "Mitchell" in honor of General Billy Mitchell, an early air power pioneer and advocate of an independent United States Air Force. The B-25 Mitchell is the only American military aircraft named after a specific person. By the end of its production, nearly 10,000 B-25s in numerous models had been built.

The B-25 first gained fame as the bomber used in the April 1942 Doolittle Raid, in which 16 B-25Bs, led by the legendary Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle, took off from the carrier USS Hornet and successfully bombed Tokyo and four other Japanese cities without loss to themselves. However, 15 of the planes subsequently crash-landed in Eastern China en route to their recovery fields in that country. These losses were the result of fuel exhaustion, stormy nighttime conditions with zero visibility, and the lack of electronic homing aids at the recovery bases. Only one B-25B landed intact; it came down in the Soviet Union, where its five-man crew was interned and the aircraft confiscated. Fortunately, 71 of the 80 Doolittle Raid crewmen survived their historic mission and eventually made it back to American lines.