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Aircraft History Built by Aichi at Watanabe Iron Works, estimated date of assembly March 1943. True serial number 214. Delivered to the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) as Type 0 Reconnaissance Seaplane / E13A1 Reisen Shiki Sui Tei (Jake) manufacture number 6214. Jim Long adds: "The number 6214 you have reported conforms to that Watanabe manufacture number. I would, at this time, suggest to you that the number 6214 is a component MN of the Watanabe type because 6 and 4 equal ten. Thus, I say that the true serial number of the component is 214, meaning that it was the 214th such component built by Watanabe. But from this limited information there is no way to know the MN of the airframe, except to guess that it might be close to 6214. If we were to assume that 6214 was the airframe number, we could find a date to go with the number. Doing that, we could derive a completion date that would be in the general vicinity of when the plane was produced. That date is March 1943. In fact, an E13A1 with the airframe MN 6214 was completed that month and year. Whether the plane you have identified is airframe No. 6214 is open to question, since the number came from stampings on the bomb bay doors and engine cowling and may or may not be the manufacture number of the airframe." Wartime History Assigned to an unknown Kōkūtai (Air Group) and operated from Buka Seaplane Base. Wartime History Ditched or sunk upside down into the Buka Passage off Sohano Island. Wreckage This wreckage of this Jake is upside down and encrusted with coral and marine growth. Present is the engine with one propeller blade sticking upward, the wings and fuselage. The bomb bay doors are open. The manufacture number is on the wreckage in at least three places: both bomb bay doors and the engine cowling are stamped "NO. 6214" [Manufacture Number 6214]. Jason Daniels adds: "The upside down wreck in Buka Passage is still there. There is a large cylindrical object [center float] which is not far away just to the front of this wreck. All the locals call it a 'Zero' and it is in around 2 metres of water. Its a good snorkeling patch." References Production Records for the Type Zero Reconnaissance Seaplane (E13A1) (Jake) by Jim Long Thanks to Jim Long, Scott Nichols and Jason Daniels for additional information Contribute
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