1/48 ICM Cessna O-2A Skymaster – American Reconnaissance Aircraft 48290

• Scale: 1:48
• Date: 22.06.2020
• Time Period: After 1950
• Markings:
• О-2А, Vietnam, 1968
• О-2А, 1971
• О-2А, Vietnam, 1969
• О-2А, Vietnam, 1969
• Model Size: 185 x 242 mm
• Box Size: 294 x 230 x 58 mm
• Number of Details: 196

In 1966 the United States Air Force (USAF) commissioned Cessna to build a military variant of the Skymaster.

As with the civilian version, the Skymaster was a low-cost twin-engine piston-powered aircraft, with one engine in the nose of the aircraft and a second engine in the rear of the fuselage.

The USAF took delivery of the O-2 Skymaster in March 1967. By 1970, a total of 532 O-2s had been built, in two variants, for the USAF.

During the Vietnam War, the O-2A was introduced as the forward air control (FAC) aircraft.