9-06001 Short Sunderland III

                 '' Short Sunderland ''

Sunderland Flying Boat model. Working bomb gear, beaching trolley, operating gun turrets and crew members, are all there, engineered with Airfix accurcy and attention to detail. Used in the War against U-Boats, then in the Berlin air lift and the Korean War, the Sunderland has a proud history. The Sunderland III, subject of this Airfix Constant Scale kit, was powered by 4 Pegasus XVIII 1,000 h.p. engines, giving her a maximum speed of 210 miles per hour, with a cruising duration of 12 hours. Her armament load of bombs, mines, or depth charges, was 4,960 lbs. and she could carry up to 14 machine guns. 

Een versie:

• 423 squadron , RCAF
  

De eerste Sunderland is in 1959 uitgegeven door Airfix onder het nummer 681 en in 1983 werd de poduktie gestopt . 

Onder deze codes is de Sunderland van 1959 tot 2010 uitgebracht:

• 681          1959 - 1971 
• 06001-1    1973 - 1980  
• 9-6001      1980 - 1983 
• 06001       1986 - 2010   her-uitgave