Need Help With What Type Of Plane This Might Be

[Bill Scott]

Its a large jacket patch Japanese Made.Thanks for your help.Scotty

[Navybean]

Canberra I believe English plane in USAF use

[TBMflyer]

Scotty, here in the states we called it the B-57, that is one sweet patch. Hope this helps,

Mark

[Bill Scott]

NavyBean and TBMflyer Thanks for your help it came with 7 squadron patches from units he was in.The guy really got around but no name to go with the.them.Scotty

[Der Finn]

It's a U.S. built, Martin B-57 Canberra - one of the first plastic model airplanes I ever built! Fond memories...

[General Apathy]

Canberra I believe English plane in USAF use

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Nicely identified Navybean, the US built over 400 under license from the UK manufacturers, theres some great detail in this wiki post about the Canberra and it's achievements . . . . . . .

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Electric_Canberra

 

Lewis.

 

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[Mr.Jerry]

wow, and I was just going to say "black"

[firefighter]

Sweet patch. The ‘DOOM PUSSYS’ flew the B-57, I think 8th Attack Sq, in Vietnam

[gwb123]

The all black color scheme with red lettering is interesting. Apparently some of these aircraft were assigned a "night interdiction" role. Please see the following:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_B-57_Canberra

[firefighter]

Here is a list of USAF units that flew the B-57’s; https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_B-57_units_of_the_United_States_Air_Force

The color scheme looks like the top pic, 3rd BW