PIXJ009030-C
Consignment
This is a Consignment sale item we are offering. It comes in a generic box and only has airplane and stand.
As-Is.
Model was previously glued to stand, does not fit back on peg currently. Some propellers loose, paint marks on one engine shown.
As-Is.
IXO Models
PIXJ009030 Blohm und Voss BV 222 "Wiking", Luftwaffe LTS 222, X4+BH, Alexandra-land, Operation Schatzgräber 1944
1/144th Scale Aircraft Measures 10" long x 12.5" wingspan
The Blohm & Voss BV 222 Wiking (Viking) was a large, six-engined German flying boat of World War II, and the largest flying boat to achieve operational status during the war. Prior to World War II, the German airline Deutsche Lufthansa had carried out many transatlantic mail flights. However, their main interest was passenger transport, and they initiated a program in 1936 that culminated in an order for three BV 222 flying boats designed by Richard Vogt. In 1944, this particular aircraft participated in Operation Schatzgräber ("Treasure Seeker"), the code name of a German weather station at Alexandra Land in the Arctic, whose sick crew needed to be evacuated. The BV 222 dropped a spare wheel for a Fw 200 which had sustained damage during landing near the station.