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Dauntless Aviation
Diecast Aircraft Information
Diecast Aircraft Information
MetalWings Diecast Aircraft Reference by Dauntless Aviation
 SM1005
F8F-1B Bearcat VF-17, 1946 "C-103"
 SM1006
F8F-2 Bearcat VF-61, USS Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1949 "Jolly Rogers"
 SM1001
F8F-1 Bearcat VF-3, US Navy, 'Lt. A. M. "Mike" Granat' "Felix The Cat" early 1946
 SM1002
F8F-1B Bearcat French Air Force Indochina, 1954
 SM1003
F8F-1B Bearcat Blue Angels, 1946
 SM1004
F8F-1 Bearcat USN, "Beetle Bomb" 1949
 SM1007
Grumman F8F-1 Bearcat US Navy Air Reserve Glenview, 1950's
 SM1008
Grumman F8F-2 Bearcat VMFAT-10 MCAS Quantico Virginia July 1951
SM1009
F8F-1 Bearcat 1st Fighter Squadron South Vietnamese Air Force 1960s




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