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    Airframe Family: Mitsubishi A6M
    Latest Model:A6M5 Type 0 Model 52
    Last Military Serial:BI-05 IJNAF
    Construction Number:196
    Compressed ID:Mitsubishi A6M5 Type 0 Model 52 sn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Imperial War Museum, Duxford Airport, Duxford, Cambridgeshire / Cambs, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an A6M5 Type 0 Model 52.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Force with s/n BI-05.

    Transferred to Allied Technical Air Intelligence Unit, SE Asia.

    Markings Applied: ATAIU-SEA
    Markings changed for test flying.

    By 1960

    To Imperial War Museum, Lambeth, London, London, England.
    Only the cockpit section is with the museum.
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    By 2007

    Markings Applied: SEA

    David Blaker comments (8 March 2019): The official description board at IWM Duxford says This cockpit is from an aircraft built by the Nakajima Aircraft Company, probably in 1944. Nothing is known of its service history. It is thought to have been captured in 1945 and evaluated by the Allied Technical Air Intelligence Unit - South East Asia. It was transferred to the Museum by the Royal Air Force in 1961 Source IWM.

    2007


    Photographer: Andy West

    2013

    To Imperial War Museum, Duxford Airport, Duxford, Cambridgeshire/Cambs, England.
    Moved to Duxford whilst the South Lambeth buildings are renovated.
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    Markings Applied: ATAIU

    10 November 2013


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Photo taken at Duxford, Cambridgeshire, England

    20 February 2019


    Photographer: David Blaker
    Notes: Aircraft now located at Imperial War Museum Duxford
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     Warbirds Directory, 5th Edition by Geoff Goodall
    Internet Sources
     Preserved Axis Aircraft by Mikael Olrog (originally) and Classic Wings
    Individual Contributors
     John Bennett
    David Blaker
    Mike Henniger
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