Aircraft History
Built by Kawasaki in May 1943, with "Kou" armament of 2 x 12.7mm fuselage; 2 x 7.7mm wings. 

Wartime History
Abandoned at Alexishafen Airfield.

Recovery
Only the fuselage section remained in the mid-1980's. Recovered in 1984 by the RAAF for the PNG Museum, along with Ki-43 5465 collected by the Australian War Memorial. These aircraft were transported on RAN Australian Naval Landing Ship Heavy Balikpapan, together with A-20G "Hell N' Pelican" 42-86786, recovered during that same operation.

Bruce Hoy, former PNG Museum curator reports:
"My name was spray painted on the side, during the transport to the PNG Museum. The War Memorial chaps could not spell Port Moresby either, spelling it 'Morseby', which was a bit of an embarrassment."

PNG Museum Display
Displayed at the PNG Museum from 1984 - 2002.

Removal to Australia
Exported from the PNG Museum by Robert Greinert / HARS to Australia in 2002. In June 2004, it went to Precision Aerospace where it is on display.

References
Thanks to Jim Long for manufacture data.

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