RS Models 92231 1/72 Arado Ar 396

Arado has moved the development of the new Ar 396 to Société Industrielle pour l'Aeronautique in occupied France. German and French designers designed a simple wooden structure aircraft here, only the middle cabin part of the fuselage was designed as a lattice of steel tubes coated with a thin sheet of steel. Steel pipes were also in the wing beams. The air-cooled in-line twelve-cylinder Argus As 411 TA-1 with an output of 426 kW with a two-bladed automatically adjustable propeller was chosen as the drive. The aircraft manufacturer SIPA was to build three prototypes of the Ar 396 and 25 serial machines of the verification series.

Features

• Arado 396 RT+WL, Prague uprising, May 1945, German insignia overpainted by hand
• Arado 396 V4, SO+DD, 4th prototype, tested in Paris, June 1944
• Arado 396, NS+OA, Letov factory airfield, Prague, April 1945