• 1/48 scale pre-finished
• Die-cast metal with a minimum of plastic.
• Professionally painted.
• All markings pad applied for superb results.
• Comes with a pilot that can be removed.
• Comes with display stand.

The Stearman Aircraft Company produced a bi-plane trainer-aircraft called the Model 70. In
1935 the USN ordered the Model 70 with a Wright J-5 Whirlwind engine designated the
NS-1. Boeing Aircraft Company bought Stearman and gave the Model 70 a Lycoming R-680-5
radial engine making it a Model 75. In 1936 the U.S. Army Air Corps placed an order for the
Model 75 and designated it PT-13. With a Continental R-670-5 engine it became the PT-17.
The RCAF labeled it PT-27 Kaydet with Kaydet becoming the universally accepted name.

It was determined that there was a lack of training facilities for naval pilots so on March12,
1941 NAS Corpus Christi, Texas was commissioned with training starting on May 5, 1941. In
the first year of operation 800 instructors trained 300 students per month and by December 7,
1941 this rate had doubled. When WWII had ended more than 35,000 naval pilots received
their wings. In June of 1943 course 3 graduated including former U.S. President George H.W.
Bush, the youngest pilot to ever graduate from Corpus Christi.