Aircraft History
American intelligence personnel estimated the assembly date of this bomber as January 1942 after it was captured. Painted green with a fuselage hinomaru outlined in white.

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. Captured by American forces after the fall of Munda during early August 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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Last Updated
October 1, 2009