Italeri 1/72 Fiat G-91 "Gina"

I've got 3 in a box!

So, in 1966 no one would sell us any planes... United States refused to sell F-86 to us, and we needed them for air support... And we went to Germany! they had a few Fiat G-91, a scaled down version of the sabre, meant to be the "europe small defense jet". These were ordered by Turkey, who droped out on the last minute, after they were built. Germany, who appreciated the "neutrality" during WW2, sold them to us, in exchange of we let them also train their crew in Beja. This was the airplane which we kept for longer, went to war and got back, even winning the "Tigermeet" in 1980 and 85, while facing F4 phantoms II, F-16, Mirage F1 and F111... With this small little get, we beat them all... Last flight was in 1993, over 75.000 hours of flight, over 27 years... It was brand new when we got them, with a lot of potencial, and we kept them for so long, that people forgot that... Just saw an "old airplane"...

And we go to the kit! Overall, very nice! cockpit is well detailed! We do see this thing is small. But we enjoy a lot building it!

 We can choose 2 or 4 machine guns version. Both are nice and accurate.

 Landing gear has nice detail, we have airbrakes deployed, its actually pretty.

 Later models had camouflage painting... The eary ones were bare metal.

 A nice weekend build I would say a "must" on the not very known airplanes. Nice to build!