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[Shinpachi]

Nice pic, Snautzer01

Excellent, where is this located Shinpachi?
Hope you are well my friend...

Thanks Wayne.
Details are unknown but the location in the news seems somewhere in Kobe City as Kawasaki's 120th anniversary event is being held there till November 3. The airframe belongs to Kakamigahara Aerospace Science Museum in Gifu Prefecture but the museum is closed until 2018 for building reformation.
The airframe will be kept by Kawasaki's Kakamigahara factory museum to display for more a couple of years and also might be displayed in Tokyo and other cities in Japan.

 

[johnbr]

J2M Raiden Jack in the Philippines TAIC

 

[Wurger]

 

[johnbr]

J2M Raiden Jack Navy Fighter Found in Philippines 1945

 

[johnbr]

Yokosuka MXY7 Ohka Baka Bomb Rear View, Okinawa 1945
Yokosuka MXY7 Ohka | World War Photos

Yokosuka MXY7 Ohka rocket bombs found in underground hangar Atsugi 1945

 

[johnbr]

 

[johnbr]

A6M Zero 261 Kokutai on Saipan 1944

 

[Shinpachi]

 

[Old Wizard]

 

[Shinpachi]

I visited the Kawasaki's event hall in Kobe City today.
I haven't seen this airframe since 1961 when it was painted in gray.
No paint like this is much better as it looks more powerful.

 

[Snautzer01]

Kawanishi N1K2-J Shiden Kai George Wight Patterson AFB 1967

 

[Shinpachi]

 

[Snautzer01]

Ki-45 Nick Heavy Fighter at Clark Field PI 1945

 

[Snautzer01]

A6M Zero Fighter Markings Detail New Guinea

 

[Wurger]

 

[Old Wizard]

 

[Shinpachi]

 

[Capt. Vick]

I think it says: "If found, please return to Emperor."

 

[Shinpachi]

I think it says: "If found, please return to Emperor."

Might be
報国-878
(元山三山號)
Dedicated to Emperor by someone called 元山三山.

 

[Capt. Vick]

Ha ha!