Kawasaki Ki-48-I Lily Manufacture Number 534

JAAF
? Sentai

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1943 via Rocker

 

Aircraft History
American intelligence personnel estimated the assembly date of this bomber as January 1942 after it was captured.

Jim Long adds:
"By my reckoning, this was a Ki-48-I with Ha-25 (Sakae 12) engines."

Richard Dunn adds:
"These all had to be 45th FR a/c or possibly from 6th FD."

Wartime History
Abandoned at Munda Airfield and captured by American forces on August 5, 1943.

Wreckage
Parts of this Lily were sent to the U.S. for metallurgical tests. These pieces were a center section butt rib from the left wing; a piece of main spar; and a fuel tank cover.

Jim Long adds:
"The metallurgical testing was written up in TAIC Report #27, January 1944. Pieces of three different planes were reported on in this one document in an unsatisfactory way."

References
CEAR #17 mentions this aircraft.

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