Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Final product photos HA4311 F-86F-40 Pakistan Air Force.

Hobby Master 1/72 Air Power Series HA4311 F-86F-40 Sabre Sqn. Leader Modhammed Mahmood Alam, Pakistan Air Force, 1965.

Pakistan eventually purchased 102 F-86F Sabres and began to receive the Sabres in 1954. On September 1965 during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 Sqn. Leader, Commander No.11 Squadron Modhammed Mahmood Alam became an ace within one minute when he downed five Indian Air Force Hawker Hunter fighters in one minute. 

For this action he was awarded the Sitara-e-Jurat "The star of courage". During the 1965 war he is credited with nine victories of which six were Hawker Hunters. In 1982 Modhammed Mahmood Alam retired as an Air Commodore.















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