It is an unusual subject but one that is a great build by modelling friend Juan Carlos Fernández Casado, and also one with some history of the flight officer Noel Sharp. The Brewster F2A-2 was modified for export with the RAF ordering over 200. The RAF designated the plane the B339 Mk. I “Buffalo” and “Buffalo” became associated with this Brewster aircraft. 167 land based “E” versions were shipped to Singapore and Northern Malaya to equip RAF and Commonwealth squadrons. B339-Es were quite adequate until they encountered the vastly superior Japanese Zero. The pilot of the RNZAF NF-O was Flight Officer Noel C. Sharp who downed 3 aircraft and damaged 2 bombers. F/O Sharp was killed in 1942 flying a Hurricane.


















