TITOLO
Scale Aircraft Modelling|September 2021
The Toxic Death NightHawk
Aurelio Reale
TITOLO

Kit No: 2750

Scale: 1/48

Type: Injection moulded plastic

Manufacturer: Italeri

www.italeri.com

If a band of pirates were to have stolen an F-117 Nighthawk in an alternate dystopian reality, it probably would have looked exactly like YF-117A #781 as presented here. It’s not every day you see one of America’s most sensitive and exotic combat aircraft stripped of its paint and stealth coatings and rattle-canned with graffiti, but that's exactly what happened on June 27th, 1991.

Transferring #781 to a museum was a pretty big deal, as no F-117 had ever been put on public display - not to mention the fact that the aircraft was packed with classified systems and coated with some of America’s most sensitive material. Simply flying it to the museum and pulling out some avionics was not on the cards. The ‘Black Jet’ had to be totally stripped and modified inside and out before being rolled out to the public.

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