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Wartime History Built by Kawanishi Kokuki Kabushiki Kaisha (Kawanishi Aircraft Company). Delivered to the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) as N1K1 Kyōfū manufacture number 565. Wartime History Assigned to an unknown Kokutai (Air Group). Possibly, assigned to 951 Kōkūtai (951 Air Group) then another unit afterwards. No known markings or tail number. This N1K1 survived to the end of the Pacific War. In early September 1945 surrendered in Japan to American occupation forces. Postwar This N1K1 was one of four intact examples selected by U.S. forces for technical evaluation and collected at Kowa. Afterwards, one of 145 Japanese aircraft shipped to the United States and studied by the U.S. Navy (USN). Display In 1946, displayed at NAS Willow Grove outdoors as part of the David Ascher collection of captured Axis aircraft. The N1K1 was painted gray with nose number 44. During 1982, restored by NAS Willow Grove and repainted with dark green upper surfaces and gray lower surfaces with tail code Japanese kanji with 121. The center fuselage below the cockpit had Japanese kanji. The rear fuselage had an orange horizontal stripe and a white diagonal stripe. The wings had an orange identification stripe on the leading edge and a replica 30 kg bomb under each wing. The center pontoon had four red horizontal stripes outlined in white. Later, transfered to the National Naval Aviation Museum (NNAM) and placed into storage. References Jim Long adds: "Akimoto reports that Air Group 951 had 24 Rex aircraft on 15 December 1944, but by 1 July 1945 these N1K1s had been removed from the unit. That may be why the tail markings on the Rex aircraft captured appear to be painted over. They may not have been assigned to any air unit at the end of the war." Contribute
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