MDR14458 Boeing P-26 Peashooter

The “MDR14458 Boeing P-26 Peashooter” kit consist of detailed high quality 3D printed parts, photoethed parts and decals to assemble of the Boeing P-26 Peashooter aircraft model in scale 1/144.

The Boeing P-26 Peashooter is the first American production all-metal fighter aircraft and the first pursuit monoplane to enter squadron service with the United States Army Air Corps. The open cockpit, fixed landing gear, externally braced wing design was the last such design procured by the USAAC as a fighter. By 1935, just three years after the P-26, the Curtiss P-36, Messerschmitt Bf 109 and Hawker Hurricane were flying, all with enclosed cockpits, retractable landing gear and cantilever wings. However, some P-26s remained in service until after the United States entered World War II in December 1941. On 15 August 1937, eight Boeing P-26 from the Chinese Nationalist Air Force 3rd Pursuit Group, 17th Squadron, based at Chuyung airfield, engaged eight of twenty Mitsubishi G3M Nell medium bombers from the Kisarazu Air Group attacking Nanking. Four of the Chinese fighters shot down three of the fourteen Japanese bombers destroyed that day without suffering any losses. The Boeing P-26 Peashooter was produced in 1933-1936. The aircraft was operated from 1934 to 1956.