I-153 "Chaika"

Plastic kit for a Soviet I-153 “Chaika” biplane fighter of World War II

• Scale 1:48
• Dimensions (built): Length 135 mm / Wingspan 208 mm
• 100 pieces
• 4 marking options
• not built, not painted
• Paint and glue not included

The last and most perfect in N. N. Polikarpov design bureau production biplane fighters family was the I-153. It had gull-shaped upper wing, retractable chassis and more powerful armament with four ShKAS machine guns. Serial planes had M-62 radial engines, late series – more powerful M-63.

The maiden flight was in August 1938. All in all in 1939-1941 it were made 3437 planes. In summer 1941 I-153 “Chaika” (the “Gull”) was the basis of the Soviet Fighter Aviation with I-16 fighters. I-153 were used in combat until mid 1943.