SIAI-Marchetti SF-260EA/D/EU "Late Bulged Canopy Type", Décal Belge 1/72

 The SF-260 Italian trainer, sports and aerobatic aircraft can be found in use almost all around the world. In Europe, it serves with the military of Italy and Belgium, and in the past it also saw service with the Irish Air Corps. As the airframe is continously modernized and improved, the newly built machines quite differ from the earlier ones. The main difference visible being the larger or rather taller style of the sliding canopy hood that also has different framework. It all can be put down to the still increasing height of the student pilots getting their wings in the SF-260.
  Our model of these later versions differ from the SH72418 release by this very canopy style that comes on a new clear parts sprue. THe decals cater for an Italian airframe with intriguing nose arts, a Belgian machine plus two more machines that flew or still keep flying in Latin America, a aluminium painted machine from Venezuela and a white with orange trim machine aircraft flying in Uruguay.