You can’t fault a manufacturer from returning to the well when they have a hit on their hands. In the case of Panzerkampf, the Company recently indicated that six more CH-53 Sea Stallion heavy lift helicopters were on the horizon, all bound for a September fly-in. Four of the choppers look remarkably similar to one another, decked out in a baby blue camouflage scheme typically used by embarked squadrons, so its going to be difficult for us to predict which will end up a best seller and which could end up as a shelf warmer. In any event, we’ve placed our order with our distributor and will keep our fingers crossed that we ordered in the correct quantities.

Curiously, four are based upon different naval squadrons while the remaining pair are connected to HMX-1 “Marine One”, which is used to transport the President and various figures locally around Washington D.C. and Camp David.