p-70

FS9 Only: These textures represent a P-70A2 that served with the 6th Night Fighter Squadron, Detachment A. Detachment A operated from Three-Mile Airstrip, Near Port Moresby, New Guinea in 1943. The large blue "roundel" on the nose was a hallmark of the unit with several other machines sporting...

A skin for Milton Shupe's P-70 Nighthawk. P-70 (no suffix letter) "Black Magic" belonged to the 547th Night Fighter Squadron, based at Salinas Army Air Base, California in early 1944 for night fighter training. The squadron would go to war with the P-61. Black Magic posed for a well known...

A skin for Milton Shupe's P-70 Nighthawk. This P-70A-2 belonged to the 421st Night Fighter Squadron, based at Wakde Island, New Guinea in late 1943. Individual aircraft markings by Mick over base textures by "Wellis."

A skin for Milton Shupe's P-70 Nighthawk. "Sad Sack" was a P·70A-2 in use with the 348th Night Fighter Squadron at Orlando Army Air Base in early 1943. The Sad Sack was a popular wartime cartoon character, named for the slang expression for a soldier who wasn't very energetic, very bright or...

A skin for Milton Shupe's 's P-70 Nighthawk. This P-70A-1 was converted at the U.S. Army depot in Brisbane, Australia. The camouflage scheme is authentic, but the unit assignment is speculative. If it was sent to a combat unit that would have been the 6th NFS, the only Army night fighter unit in...

A skin for Milton Shupe's P-70 Nighthawk. This P-70A-1 was converted at the U.S. Army depot in Brisbane, Australia. The camouflage scheme is authentic, but the unit assignment is speculative. If it was sent to a combat unit that would have been the 6th NFS, the only Army night fighter unit in...

A skin for Milton Shupe's P-70 Nighthawk. This P-70-A2 belonged to Detatchment B, 6th Night Fighter Squadron, on Guadalcanal in the summer of 1943. Individual aircraft markings by Mick over base textures by "Wellis."

A skin for Milton Shupe's P-70 Nighthawk. This P-70 (no suffix) belonged to the 6th Night Fighter Squadron, based at Kipapa Army Air Base, Hawaii in late 1942. The plane wears the squadron's "Hoot Owl" insignia designed by Walt Disney Studios. Repaint by Mick over base textures by "Wellis"