Ilyushin Sturmovik Model Airplane

 

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Ilyushin Sturmovik Model Airplane

Item#: 70897

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Wing Span: 17.96"
Length: 14.65"


 

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Ilyushin Sturmovik Model Airplane

Factory Direct Models, the world leading manufacturer of Model Aircraft, brings to you this Ilyushin Sturmovik Airplane. This Ilyushin Sturmovik Model Airplane was hand crafted using the finest Philippine Mahogany and sealed to last for generations. Working with our blueprints and library of reference material as well as the Customer's photographs, Factory Direct Models master artisans created this famous airplane into an amazing one of a kind detailed display model.

This Ilyushin Sturmovik Airplane Model comes with a detachable stand a Personalized inscription plaque and a laminated Ilyushin Logo that adds beauty to this collectible masterpiece.

Ilyushin Sturmovik History:

The Ilyushin Il-2 Shturmovik (Russian: Ил-2 Штурмовик) was a ground attack aircraft in the Second World War, produced by the Soviet Union in large numbers. In combination with its successor, the Ilyushin Il-10, a total of 36,163 were built, making it the single most produced military aircraft design in all of aviation history as well as the third most produced aircraft in history behind the Cessna 172 and the Polikarpov Po-2. It was a prominent aircraft for tank kills with its accuracy in diving bombing.

To Shturmovik pilots, the aircraft was simply the diminutive "Ilyusha". To the soldiers on the ground, it was the "Hunchback," the "Flying Tank" or, the greatest of compliments, the "Flying Infantryman", the postwar NATO reporting name was "Bark". The Il-2 aircraft played a crucial role on the Eastern Front, and in Soviet opinion it was the most decisive aircraft in the history of modern land warfare. Joseph Stalin paid the Il-2 a great tribute in his own inimitable manner: when a particular production factory fell behind on its deliveries, Stalin sent the following cable to the factory manager: "They are as essential to the Red Army as air and bread."