Mitsubishi Betty Reconstruction In Japan

And very interesting to learn that Mr Harada is now restoring a KI-43 Oscar. Will be one of the very very few preserved/restored once done.

Understand most of it comes from Australia (recovered by the RAAF from PNG in the early 80s.

Laurent

There are a few guys over there doing remarkable restoration work..
Sorry its Facebook but….
https://www.facebook.com/taizou.nakamura.5

Pretty amazing, mainly that Japan is getting lots of interest to recover those relics.
The shame of the war is still pretty heavy there.

thank’s for the link john mate, she look’s great

Here you go….

http://www.car-airmuseum.com/en/airplane/index.html

Last I heard fuselage structure was complete and on display at Nobuo Haradas Car Museum. As of 2016 the aviation project underway is the restoration of a Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa/Oscar fighter

Any recent information on the progress with this restoration?

Cees

Sorry-missed this. Nothing further at present. Mr Harada was inbetween trips to the tsunami disaster zone where he is helping out, so didn’t have time to elaborate further.

Dave

Sorry chaps,:o

Forgot to mention in my first post that it was reported in Classic Wings Magazine. Dave McDonald, can you enlighten us further?

Cees

Nice one, any active work links?

http://www.pacificwrecks.com/aircraft/g4m/12017.html

Tail section to ponder on…

Sounds like a great project i hope them the best of luck.

There are the very substantial remains of one at Planes of Fame in Chino in its as crashed condition but it has a lot of its parts i have some pics somewhere will find them.

curlyboy

Strange that no-one commented on the fantastic job Nobuo Harada is doing in japan in completly building a forward fuselage of a Betty to complete the original restored tail section he already had.

As per Sopwith’s comment… its hard to comment on something that one does not know is happening.

Now that we know a Betty job is under work, we can search the internet to try to find out info about it… unless you feel generous enough to give us a link to where you got your info.

Didn’t know about this one ,where did you hear about it?.Sounds interesting.