Kovozávody Prostějov (KP) – CLK0014 – Jakovlev Jak-3

Description:

Unassembled plastic model kit in 1/72 scale of a Soviet WWII fighter aircraft Jak-3 (Yak-3).

Reissue with new decals of the old Heller kit later reissued by Smer. Kit was tooled in 1975.

Club Edition kit, include decal sheet with just 2 markings, Polish and Soviet. The Soviet marking is an interesting one, as belong to the French Fighter Squadron 2/30 Normandie-Niemen, a French fighter squadron created in 1942 (Free France) who fought all the war in the Eastern Front supporting the Soviet Army. In 1945 with the war ended Stalin decreed that combatants could return home with their arms, and so they flown their Yak-3 till Paris (Paris–Le Bourget Airport). 38 Yak-3s paraded down the Champs-Élysées.