Airfix 1/48 Blackburn Buccaneer S.2C/D Fighter Scaled Plastic Model Kit

The Blackburn Buccaneer was designed to have exceptional low-altitude performance in response to the Soviet Navy's Sverdlov Class Cruisers expansion programme of the 1950s. Required to operate from Britain's aircraft carriers, this subsonic strike jet was the most capable aircraft of its kind in the world and the heaviest aircraft ever operated by the Royal Navy. The Buccaneers of No.800 Naval Air Squadron were famously involved in the destruction of the stricken oil tanker Torrey Canyon off Land's End in March 1967, as the government attempted to avert an environmental catastrophe by breaking open the vessel and burning its flammable cargo. Operating from RAF Brawdy, eight Buccaneers from No.800 NAS dropped 42,000 lbs of high explosive bombs on the tanker, achieving an impressive 75% success rate.