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CVA-59 USS Forrestal C-1a Trader Model, 1/46th Scale, COD, Mahogany, Navy

$289.00

Fly off the USS Forrestal in this hand crafted C-1a COD. Each piece is hand crafted from wood and painted to provide something you’ll love!

  • Length – 10.5 inches
  • Wingspan – 18 inches
  • Made from Mahogany
  • US Veteran Owned Business
  • The product is not intended to be used by children 12 years and younger.

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CVA-59 USS Forrestal C-1a COD

Fly off the CVA-59 USS Forrestal in this hand crafted C-1a COD. Each piece is hand crafted from wood and painted to provide something you’ll love!

  • Length – 10.5 inches
  • Wingspan – 18 inches
  • Made from Mahogany
  • US Veteran Owned Business
  • The product is not intended to be used by children 12 years and younger.

USS Forrestal (CV-59), formerly AVT-59 and CVA-59, was a supercarrier named after the first Secretary of Defense James Forrestal. Commissioned in 1955, she was the first completed supercarrier, and was the lead ship of her class. Unlike the successor Nimitz class, Forrestal and her class were conventionally powered. The other carriers of her class were USS Saratoga, USS Ranger and USS Independence. She superseded the World War II Japanese carrier Shinano as the largest aircraft carrier ever built in terms of full load displacement and was the first to specifically support jet aircraft.

The ship was affectionately called “The FID”, because James Forrestal was the first ever Secretary of Defense, FID standing for “First In Defense”. This is also the slogan on the ship’s insignia and patch.

Forrestal served for nearly four decades in the Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Pacific. She was decommissioned in 1993, and made available as a museum. Attempts to save her were unsuccessful, however, and in February 2014 she was towed to Brownsville, Texas, to be scrapped. Scrapping was completed in December 2015.

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