Swordfish Mk.II, Royal Naval Air Service, No. 836 Squadron, converted merchant aircraft carrier Rapana, North Atlantic, 1943, LS326 (preserved), LS326 1/72 [AV72FB001]

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The Swordfish is a three-seat, biplane torpedo bomber developed by the British Fairey Company. It was received by the Royal Naval Air Service in 1936 and began operating aboard regular aircraft carriers in 1939.
Although its basic performance was low, it continued to be active on the front lines in anti-submarine patrol missions, which required flying at slow speeds for long periods of time, as well as its excellent take-off and landing capabilities, dive bombing, and night attacks.
In 1941, equipped with radar, it sank a U-boat, making the world's first successful night anti-submarine attack, and also torpedoed and damaged the battleship Bismarck.

The model aircraft is a Mk II which was transferred from Fairey to Blackburn and fitted with a Pegasus engine in 1943. It was installed on the converted Merchant Carrier (MAC) Rapana to escort aid cargo convoys heading to Britain via the North Atlantic.
It has now been restored and is stored at RAF Yeovilton, where it serves as part of the Royal Navy Historic Flight.

*The main wings are fixed and cannot be folded.