It's a great kit and you'll have fun.
But it was never "Boyington's airplane." What it was, was a Corsair that Greg Boyington sat in after someone pasted a bunch of Japanese flag stickers on it, so he could be photographed in "his airplane" for the folks back home.
You actually can't even say that the airplanes were associated with a particular squadron. The Corsairs were in such short supply that squadrons came up to the Solomons from Espiritu Santo for a six week tour, and they took the airplanes of the squadron they were replacing. Ground crews weren't associated with squadrons - they were in "Combat Air Servicing Units" and stayed up on Guadalcanal or Rendova or New Georgia or Bougainville, while the pilots cycled in and out.
It's possible Boyington may have flown this airplane on one or two missions, but that's as close to "his" as things got.
the only squadron this situation didn't apply to was VF-17, the only Navy Corsair squadron, and one of only three Navy fighter squadrons in AirSols at the time of the Rabaul campaign in the fall of 1943 and early 1944. The Marine pilots were extremely jealous of them. When the pilots left at the end of their first tour for a month in Australia, and their airplanes remained on the field to be worked on and repaired by their crews, rather than used by the other squadrons, there was a lot of "negativity" expressed about the situation.
