More than Just a Display Piece, the Handley Page Halifax Canada Model Airplane is a Spectacular Work of Art

Warplanes brings and introduces you a finely handcrafted Handley Page Halifax Canada model airplane made of the finest grade materials which underwent stages of meticulous and careful sanding, carving and modeling to its original form. Our highly skilled master craftsmen painstakingly and passionately worked on the Handley Page Halifax Canada model airplane's details, ensuring exactness and precision based on the original airplane.

The Handley Page Halifax Canada model airplane's paint scheme and markings are extremely accurate and precise, depicting the real plane. It also comes with a sturdy, durable base with a chrome steel support mounting rod or you can have our variable pitch wall mount accessory, allowing your to be displayed either hanging on the wall or the ceiling for an added effect. This top-quality Handley Page Halifax model plane will surely be appreciated by anyone who receives this elegant desktop display as a gift.

In November 1940, Halifax entered service with No. 35 Squadron RAF at RAF Linton-on-Ouse.  Its first operational raid was against Le Havre on the night of March 11-12, 1941.  Halifaxes, under the service of RAF Bomber Command, dropped 224,207 tons of bombs and lost 1,833 aircraft.  The Halifax served as a glider tug, electronic warfare aircraft for No. 100 Group RAF and special operations as parachuting agents and arms into occupied Europe.  Under RAF Coastal Command, Halifaxes were used for anti-submarine warfare, reconnaissance and meteorological roles.  After the war, Halifaxes remained in service with the RAF Coastal Command and RAF Transport Command and the Armee de l'Air until early 1952.  The Pakistan Air Force continued to use the Halifax until 1961.  Canada also operated the Halifax.

Currently, there are only two Halifax bombers which were restored.  One is a composite aircraft located at the Yorkshire Air Museum, on the World War II airfield, RAF Elvington and the other Halifax was retrieved from the bottom of Lake Mjosa in Norway in 1995 after being shot down in April 1945.  It was brought back to Canada and on 2005, restoration was completed.  A third Halifax was recovered from Lake Hoklingen in Norway, where it crashed after being damaged in an attack on the German Battleship Tirpitz.  It was recovered by a "sub aqua" team from the RAF in 1973.  The recovered Halifax was displayed at the Royal Air Force Museum at Hendon in London.  On November 26, 2006, another Halifax was unearthed in southern Poland.  It was shot down on the night of August 4-5, 1944, while returning from the "air-drop-action" during the Warsaw Uprising.