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| IJN ? Kōkūtai |
Aircraft History Built by Mitsubishi at Nagoya, estimated date of assembly October 1943. Delivered to the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) as A6M5 Model 52 manufacture number 4168. Parts from A6M5 Zero 4241 were used in the body of this plane. Wartime History Assigned to an unknown Kōkūtai (Air Group) at Rabaul. This Zero was abandoned at an airfield near Rabaul. Wreckage This Zero remained in situ until 1974. During 1974, the wing and fuselage center section were recovered from Rabaul with other parts of Zeros and exported to Japan by Light Aviation Co., Ltd. In 1980, purchased by Nobuo Harada. Starting in 1980, this Zero was restored by Nobuo Harada. Parts from other Zeros including wreckage recovered from Colonia Airfield on Yap. In 2000, the static restoration was completed. Display This Zero painted in the markings of A6M5 Zero tail 81-161 from 281 Kōkūtai (281 Air Group) and displayed at Kawaguchiko Car Museum In 2002, donated to Yasukuni Jinja (Yasukuni Shrine) Museum and displayed at Yūshūkan (Yasukuni Museum) in the Main Exhibition Hall. References Other sources list the manufacture number of this Zero as 4240 or 4241. Those numbers were from parts used in the restoration. One of this Zero's former pilots served as an attache for the Japanese Embassy in Washington DC. Contribute
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