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Product Description
This is a set of NINE aircraft in either 1:1250 or 1:1200 scale - please check your choice in the top right corner of this page.
Please note that the individual items are supplied "caged" together to avoid loss and damage - after the cage is removed there are NO sprues to cut away from the individual items.
The HE 5, nicknamed the "Hansa", first flew in 1926 and was operated by the German, Swedish and Soviet Union air forces.
This is the Swedish S5A version of which 12 were built under licence by Svenska Aero and another 10 were built by the Swedish Air Force itself. For the later Swedish S5 C and D version please click HERE
Armament consisted of one fixed, forward firing Browning machine gun and one trainable, rearward-firing on a ring mount. It could carry 160kg of bombs on racks beneath the fuselage.
Two S5As took part in the 1928 international rescue effort to save the survivors from the crash of the airship Italia.
SCALE: This set is available in either 1/1250th scale OR 1/1200th scale. Please check your choice in the top right corner of this page.
Wingspan = 13.4 mm in 1/1250th and 13.9 mm in 1/1200th
For the 1/700 scale version of the HE 5 , click HERE
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