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RS Models 1/72 Curtiss BFC-2 Goshawk # 92213
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On 16 April 1932, the U.S. Navy ordered two prototypes of a new shipboard fighter under the designations XF11C-1 and XF11C-2, with a 700hp Wright R-1820-78 radial.
The R-1820-78 Cyclone and mixed structure of the XF11C-2 found favour with the US Navy, and, on 18 October 1932, a production order was placed for 28 F11C-2s, deliveries of which began in February 1933 and were completed in the following May.
The fourth aircraft on the contract was completed with a manually-retractable undercarriage as the XF11C-3, subsequently being redesignated XBF2C-1 with adoption of the "bomber-fighter" category in March 1934.
Simultaneously, the F11C-2s were redesignated as BFC-2s. Armament comprised two 7.62mm Browning machine guns and a single bomb of up to 227kg or four 51kg bombs could be carried.
The BFC-2 remained in U.S. Navy service until 1938.
1. BFC-2 Goshawk, USS Saratoga, VB-3B, 1937
2. BFC-2 Goshawk, USS Enterprise, VB-6, 1938
3. BFC-2 Goshawk, USS Saratoga, VB-2B, 1937
