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    Airframe Family: Mitsubishi A6M
    Latest Model:A6M5 Type 0 Model 52
    Last Military Serial:61-120 IJNAF
    Construction Number:5357
    Last Civil Registration:N46770
    Compressed ID:Mitsubishi A6M5 Type 0 Model 52 sn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Planes of Fame Air Museum, Chino, CA

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    Dates

    Event

    1943

    Constructed as an A6M5 Type 0 Model 52.

    1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Force with s/n 61-120.

    Transferred to 261 Kokutai.

    18 June 1944

    Captured by US Marines at Aslito Airfield on Saipan.

    August 1944

    Transported by ship.
    To USA aboard USS Copahee.

    To Air Museum/Ed Maloney, Claremont, CA.
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    To Planes of Fame Air Museum/Ed Maloney, Ontario Airport, Ontario, CA.
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    Photographer: Richard Boehme via Ron Cole
    Notes: Source: http://www.colesaircraft.world/ed-malonys-air-museum

    3 May 1978

    To Planes of Fame Inc, Anchorage, AK with new c/r N46770.

    May 1985


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Chino Airport Planes of Fame, CA.

    By October 1990

    Markings Applied: 61-120

    October 1990


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Planes of Fame, Chino Airport, CA.

    4 December 1997


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Planes of Fame in Chino, California.

    Circa 1999


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Chino Airport, CA

    17 February 2000

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX46770 (TYPE ZERO, 82020) issued.

    30 March 2000

    To Air Museum, Chino, CA keeping c/r N46770.

    To Planes of Fame Air Museum, Chino Airport, Chino, CA.
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    2001

    Used in the motion picture Pearl Harbor (2001).

    15 May 2009


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Planes of Fame Air Show in Chino, CA.

    2010

    13 May 2011


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: Planes of Fame Airshow, Chino, CA.

    14 May 2011


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: Planes of Fame Airshow, Chino, CA.

    18 April 2017


    Photographer: Marcin Rogowski
    Notes: At Planes of Fame Air Museum in Chino, CA, USA.

    5 May 2017


    Photographer: Dan Stijovich
    Notes: Practice day at the 2017 Planes of Fame air show

    Circa 3 May 2018


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Planes of Fame Air Show in Chino, California.

    Circa 3 May 2018


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Planes of Fame Air Show in Chino, California.

    Circa 3 May 2018


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Planes of Fame Air Show in Chino, California.

    1 November 2018

    To Planes of Fame Air Museum, Chino, CA keeping c/r N46770.
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