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On December 4, 1950 Ensign Jesse L. Brown, the first black to complete the Navy’s basic flight training, along with 5 other aircraft left the carrier USS Leyte to support UN troops trapped at Chosin Reservoir. When the flight arrived on scene the enemy had left but Ensign Brown’s aircraft was leaking fuel, probably caused by small arms fire from the ground. Brown jettisoned his external fuel tanks and rockets and attempted a landing in the snow. Unfortunately the landing became a crash and Brown was trapped in his aircraft where he eventually died.

The model number is changed from 203 to 211. The reason for the change is that an aviation historian from USA supplied a declassified document to our US distributor proving that it should be “211”.