1/48 Hobby Boss F4U-5 Corsair 80389

The F4U-5 is the last propeller-driven fighter of the US Navy to be produced. They are developed from the F4U-4, the prototype of the aircraft is a converted F4U-4 (BuNo.27296). A series of latest technologies were applied to the aircraft, and the first flight were taken on December 21, 1945.
The F4U-5 have the longest nose of all the Corsairs, the extend nose contains the 2300hp R-2800-32W engine and the automatically-adjusting turbo supercharger. The cockpit was redesigned, and also the canopy. The F4U-5’s production was limited to 233 examples with the ending of the war.