Museum Quality: Douglas Skyraider AD-6 Marines Model Plane

Our Douglas Skyraider AD-6 model airplane is modeled and handcrafted using various high-quality grade materials by our renowned master craftsmen. Our Douglas Skyraider AD-6 model airplane is uniquely designed and manufactured using the latest innovations and techniques applied in the over-all manufacturing and operation process procedures. The model airplane's parts including the fuselage, wings and cockpit are extremely accurate and precise based on the original.

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The Douglas AD "Skyraider" was built to replace the SB2C Helldiver, but did not participate in any World War II operations before the war ended. As the most powerful carrier-based attack plane ever built, this single-engine aircraft with its three fuselage stations and six racks on each wing could carry a varied assortment of ordnance including bombs, rockets, mines, torpedoes and napalm at weights greater than that of the B-17 Flying Fortress. More than 3,100 were built and operated in the attack role over a 23-year lifespan (1945-1968).

Used with great success throughout the Korean conflict by the Navy and Marine Corps, the Skyraider was described as the best and most effective close-support and interdiction aircraft in the world. On one occasion, ADs destroyed the floodgates of Hwachon Dam using torpedoes. This denied the enemy the ability to flood the two valleys and hold back the American advance.

One of the early missions assigned to the AD was nuclear weapon delivery. With two external 300-gallon drop tanks and a nuclear weapon, the Skyraider was capable of remaining airborne for 13 hours. Its only limitation in this configuration was consumption of oil beyond its 50-gallon capacity. Multi-seat configurations were built for airborne early warning, electronic counter-measures, and anti-submarine warfare operations, as well for transport of passengers and cargo.