USS Ranger CV-4

Plastic kit for the aircraft carrier USS Ranger CV-4

• Scale 1:350
• Dimensions LxW (built): 669.7 x 95.4 mm
• Detailed hull in one piece
• Detailed flight deck and hangar deck
• Extensive photo-etched circuit boards included
• Aircraft fleet includes:
  • Grumman Wildcat F6F-3
  • Grumman TBF Avenger TBF-1
  • Douglas SBD Dauntless SBD-3
• Complete ship and plane decals
• not built, not painted
• Paint and glue not included

USS Ranger (CV-4) was the first ship of the United States Navy to be designed and built from the keel up as an aircraft carrier. Ranger was a relatively small ship, closer in size and displacement to the first U.S. carrier—Langley—than later ships. An island superstructure was not included in the original design, but was added after completion. Of the eight pre-war U.S. aircraft carriers CV-1 through CV-8, Ranger was one of only three to survive the entirety of World War II, the others being Enterprise and Saratoga. Unlike the others, however, she was initially deemed too slow for use with the Pacific Fleet's carrier task forces, and so most of her wartime service was spent in the Atlantic Ocean.