Private Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa N43JE
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Piotr Gryzowski
Jocelyn Dell
Image ID: 621335
Views: 1263
Operator: Private - N43JE
Aircraft: Nakajima - Ki-43 Hayabusa
Airport: USA - Oregon - In Flight - Oregon
Category: Main database
Photo taken on 2015-8-30 by Hans Scholtens [Contact]
Camera setting: PENTAX K-5, 1/100s, f/9.0 at 28mm ISO 80
Photographer's remark
(6.10.2015, 18:37 CET)
Not your every day sight, seeing a Ki-43 "Oscar" and an A6M3 "Zero" flying in formation. The Ki-43 is part of the Erickson Collection in Madras, Oregon, whereas the A6M3 was flown in specifically for the Madras A2AX event from California. The "Zero" is operated by the Commemorative Air Force, Southern California Wing, and is flown by Rob "Lips" Hertberg. The "Oscar" of the Erickson Collection was part of the 54th Sentai (Group), 1st Chutai (Squadron), stationed on Simuysu Island in the far north of the Kuril Island Chain, located between Northern Japan and the Russian Kamchatka Peninsula. Assigned to defend the home islands from invasion as WWII was ending, she was abandoned in August 1945. Brought to the USA by Doug Champlin, she was restored to airworthy condition by the Texas Airplane Factory in Ft. Worth, and Goss Hawk Unlimited in Mesa, Arizona.
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