Wingspan: 19"
Model length: 13"
Code: GM09017

Now made available by Mastercraft Collection's Big Wings Series features C-47 Skytrain BIG Mahogany Desktop Model Airplane. If you've wanted a more prominent and dominant desktop model for your collection, then this series is for you. These model airplane replicas are REALLY HUGE, bigger than you've come to expect; and with our low-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 one for yourself to know how BIG these model airplanes are! 

Bigger than you've come to expect is this BIG desktop model airplane of the C-47 Skytrain. Handcarved from mahogany wood down to the control surfaces, with handpainted markings and panel lines, this BIG beautiful "Gooney bird" model is the perfect centerpiece to any World War II collection. 

This airplane model is handcrafted by Mastercraftmens of Mastercraft Collections who are making models for over 30 years now. 

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 

The Douglas C-47 Skytrain or Dakota is a military transport that was developed from the Douglas DC-3 airliner. During World War II, the armed forces of many countries used the C-47 and modified DC-3s for the transport of troops, cargo and wounded. Over 10,000 aircraft were produced in Long Beach and Santa Monica, California and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 

The C-47 was vital to the success of many Allied campaigns, in particular those at Guadalcanal and in the jungles of New Guinea and Burma where the C-47 (and its naval version, the R4D) alone made it possible for Allied troops to counter the mobility of the light-travelling Japanese army. Additionally, C-47s were used to airlift supplies to the embattled American forces during the Battle of Bastogne. But possibly its most influential role in military aviation was flying The Hump from India into China where the expertise gained would later be used in the Berlin Airlift in which the C-47 would also play its part. 

In Europe, the C-47 was used in vast numbers in the later stages of the war, particularly to tow gliders and drop paratroops. In the Pacific, with careful use of the island landing strips of the Pacific Ocean, C-47s were even used for ferrying soldiers serving in the Pacific theater back to the United States.