This is a 1:500 scale die-cast model airplane from Herpa Wings of the Douglas DC-4 R5D Aircraft in the colors of the US Marines Blue Angels. The success story of the famous aerobatic team Blue Angels of the US Navys Marine Corps began in 1946 with impressive formation flights. With the groups and fleets quickly rising popularity, a transportation airplane soon became necessary to bring the equipment as well as the crew itself to the air shows. In 1959, after initially operating a Douglas R4D-5 and a Curtiss Commando, the Blue Angels commissioned a Douglas R5D-3 which was the US Navys name for the DC-4 with the registration 50868. According to the fleets inventory, it received the plain name 8 and it was operated until March 1968.