Item#: BBI-000806
Price: $59.98

Description: This is the first in the "MERIT EXCLUSIVE" Series of BBI Elite Force Aircraft, available only to the Hobby and Collectible Market. As the first release, we present you F6F-3 "Cat Mouth", VF-27 stationed with USS Princenton. The Grumman F6F Hellcat was a fighter plane descended from the earlier F4F Wildcat, but was a completely new design sharing only a familial resemblance to the Wildcat. Some tagged it as "Wildcat's big brother". The Hellcat proved to be the most successful aircraft in naval history, destroying 5,163 aircraft in service with the US Navy and US Marine Corps, plus 52 with the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm during World War II. Postwar, the Hellcat aircraft was rapidly phased out of frontline service, finally retiring in 1954 as a night-fighter in composite squadrons.