COD USN aircraft of VR-24 

attached to the 6th Fleet 1

by Carmel John Attard

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Here are two Navy transport aircraft that on many occasions in the past have landed at Luqa airfield, Malta, whenever a US carrier called at our port on visit.  The Grumman Trader is a Falcon conversion kit comprising of vacform fuselage, nacelle ends, and alterations to the wings leading edges coming from a Hasegawa Tracker kit.  The Hawkeye also built to 1/72 scale is a completely scratch built model with cast aluminum wings, engines and props and wooden fuselage.  Decals came from various Super Scale brand often wondered why there was only a Falcon conversion kit of the Hawkeye when there are so many navy aircraft enthusiasts all over the world.

Regards  

Carmel  

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Photos and text © by Carmel J Attard