Royal Australian Air Force NZ6217Calum Gibson's A-4G as it appeared as NZ6217 of the Royal New Zealand Airforce. This aircraft began it's service career as 155053 and served with VA-155 and VA-212 as well as the Royal Australian Navy as N13-155063 with RAN code 876. The aircraft went to the RNZAF in July 1984 where it became NZ6217. It was withdrawn from service in December 2001. Calums aircraft is painted for the RNZAF's No. 75 squadron in 1984. The aircraft was built from the Academy A-4E kit with details such as pitot tube, Tacan Antenna and LAU 7 added from the Hasegawa kit. The aircraft was built as a flying kit to show the slats in the up position, which is rarely seen. Excluding the rocket launcher the weapons came from the Hasegawa weapons set. The RAN paint scheme of Light Admiralty Grey (blue) and Dark Sea Grey was used and painted with Tamiya XF-23 Light Blue and XF-54 Dark Sea Grey. Though some of the Hasegawa decals were used the RNZAF decals were from Gekko Graphics. Provided by Joe Turpen.     |