USS Navy Yorktown CV-5 1/200 Trumpeter

The USS Yorktown is a Us Navy aircraft carrier of the Second World War, the first of its kind, which was sunk on June 7, 1942 at the Battle of Midway. The third American warship to bear this name, the USS Yorktown is a 19,800-ton aircraft carrier. He's wearing the hull number CV-5. Built at the Newport News, Virginia, shipyards, it was launched on April 4, 1936 and was godmothered by Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of the 32nd President of the United States. It was declared operational on September 30, 1937, and captain Ernest D. McWhorter took command of it. Once armed, the aircraft carrier departed for the Virginia Capes training area off the Chesapeake Bay in January 1938, where it led the qualification operations of its new airborne group. From April 1939, it operated in the Caribbean and the Atlantic, and for the next two years in the Pacific. In May 1941, Yorktown returned to the Atlantic, where it patrolled in the months leading up to the United States' entry into the War against Axis forces. Model of more than 1120 pieces. Metal and photo-cut parts.

Size: L:1.28m x H:44.5cm x l:13.5cm.

1120 pieces

Model to build and paint.

Manufacturer: Trumpeter
Scale: 1/200