{"id":1720,"date":"2021-06-15T23:01:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T21:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.4pluspublications.com\/en\/?post_type=product&#038;p=1720"},"modified":"2022-08-25T18:55:54","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T16:55:54","slug":"mkm144091-spitfire-xviii-mighty-eighteen","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.4pluspublications.com\/en\/produkt\/mkm144091-spitfire-xviii-mighty-eighteen\/","title":{"rendered":"[MKM144091] Spitfire XVIII \u2018Mighty Eighteen\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supermarine Type 394 Spitfire Mk.XVIII was a British fighter evolved from the F Mk.XIVE and was conceived as a \u2018Super Spitfire\u2019. Unfortunately, it came too late for wartime use.<\/p>\n<p>There was no prototype built while the first serial aircraft flew in June 1945. Production ended in early 1946 and totalled 200 Spitfire F Mk.XVIIIs and 100 FR Mk.XVIIIs, the latter being a fighter-reconnaissance variant with one oblique and two vertical cameras in the rear fuselage. It was a single-seat monoplane aircraft with cut-down rear fuselage and enlarged rudder. It was of all metal construction, powered by a two-stage supercharged RR Griffon engine. It carried extra fuel and had a revised, stronger wing structure. A full-span or clipped E-type wing was fitted mounting two 20mm cannons and two 0.5&#8243; (12.7mm) machine guns. Three 500lb bombs or various types of rocket projectiles could also be carried.<\/p>\n<p>Spitfire Mk.XVIIIs were mostly issued to the squadrons in the Middle East and Far East, where they were active against guerrillas during the Malayan Emergency in the late 1940s.<\/p>\n<p>From late 1947 to mid-1949 India bought 100 ex-RAF aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Colour schemes included in the kit:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1) Vickers-Supermarine Spitfire F Mk.XVIII (Type 394), TP222, White B, No.60 Sq. (based at Seletar, Singapore), Royal Air Force, Far East Air Force (FEAF), Kuala Lumpur Air Base, Malayan Union, 1947<\/p>\n<p>2) Vickers-Supermarine Spitfire FR Mk.XVIII (Type 394), TZ233, White T, No.208 Sq., Royal Air Force, Middle East Air Force (MEAF), Fayid Air Base, Egypt, 1949-51<\/p>\n<p>3) Vickers-Supermarine Spitfire FR Mk.XVIII (Type 394), TP424, White T, No.28 Sq., Royal Air Force, Far East Air Force (FEAF), Kai Tak Air Base, Hong Kong, August 1949 \u2013 February 1950<\/p>\n<p>4) Vickers-Supermarine Spitfire FR Mk.XVIII (Type 394), HS636, White 96, Advanced Flying School (India), Indian Air Force, Ambala Air Force Station, India, 1948<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Assembly instructions:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-710\" src=\"http:\/\/www.4pluspublications.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/pdf-download.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"60\" height=\"58\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.4pluspublications.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/MKM144091-Spitfire-FR.XVIIIE_instr-web.pdf\">MKM144091 Spitfire FR.XVIIIE_instr web<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">RELEASED 11\/2018<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">SOLD OUT<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two injection-moulded kits are supplied in this box and each kit contains 31 parts and one clear part (the cockpit canopy). A comprehensive decal sheet is included.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1715,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[69],"product_tag":[27,73],"class_list":{"0":"post-1720","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-144kitprop","7":"product_tag-plakit","8":"product_tag-plakitprop","10":"first","11":"outofstock","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"product-type-simple"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4pluspublications.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/1720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4pluspublications.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4pluspublications.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.4pluspublications.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4pluspublications.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.4pluspublications.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=1720"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.4pluspublications.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=1720"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.4pluspublications.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=1720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}