Registration / Serial: | 28 |
Aircraft Original Type: | Aichi M6A1 Seiran |
Aircraft Generic Type: | Aichi M6A1 Seiran |
Aircraft Version: | Aichi M6A1 Seiran |
C/n (msn): | |
Operator Titles: | Japan - Navy |
City / Airport: | Washington - Dulles International (KIAD / IAD)Map |
Region / Country: | Virginia, United States |
Collection: | National Air and Space Museum (Smithsonian) - Udvar-Hazy Center |
Photo Date: | 5 June 2016 |
Photo by: | Arjun SarupContact |
Photo ID: | 762615Submit Correction |
View count: | 95 |
Only extant Seiran (Clear Sky Storm) on display at Udvar-Hazy Center. This is the last of 28 built that was ferried by Lt. Kazuo Akatsuka to Yokosuka and surrendered in 1945. Designed by Toshio Ozaki who planned the B7A Ryūsei, the floatplane was powered by a 12-cyl liquid-cooled 1,400 hp Atsuta 32 engine that was a licence-built DB601A. These aircraft of 631 Kokutai were to be launched via catapult from 122 m I-400-class submarines capable of carrying three Seirans. Operations were planned to bomb Panama Canal, the US fleet at Ulithi Atoll and US cities, forestalled by the end of the war.
Registration / Serial: | 28 |
Aircraft Version: | Aichi M6A1 Seiran |
C/n (msn): | |
Operator Titles: | Japan - Navy |
City / Airport: | Washington - Dulles International (KIAD / IAD)Map | Region / Country: | Virginia, United States |
Photo Date: | 5 June 2016 |
Photo by: | Arjun SarupContact |
Registration / Serial: | 28 |
Aircraft Original Type: | Aichi M6A1 Seiran |
Aircraft Generic Type: | Aichi M6A1 Seiran |
Aircraft Version: | Aichi M6A1 Seiran |
C/n (msn): | |
Operator Titles: | Japan - Navy |
City / Airport: | Washington - Dulles International (KIAD / IAD)Map |
Region / Country: | Virginia, United States |
Collection: | National Air and Space Museum (Smithsonian) - Udvar-Hazy Center |
Photo Date: | 5 June 2016 |
Photo by: | Arjun SarupContact |
Photo ID: | 762615Submit Correction |
View count: | 95 |
Only extant Seiran (Clear Sky Storm) on display at Udvar-Hazy Center. This is the last of 28 built that was ferried by Lt. Kazuo Akatsuka to Yokosuka and surrendered in 1945. Designed by Toshio Ozaki who planned the B7A Ryūsei, the floatplane was powered by a 12-cyl liquid-cooled 1,400 hp Atsuta 32 engine that was a licence-built DB601A. These aircraft of 631 Kokutai were to be launched via catapult from 122 m I-400-class submarines capable of carrying three Seirans. Operations were planned to bomb Panama Canal, the US fleet at Ulithi Atoll and US cities, forestalled by the end of the war.
Registration / Serial: | 28 |
Aircraft Version: | Aichi M6A1 Seiran |
C/n (msn): | |
Operator Titles: | Japan - Navy |
City / Airport: | Washington - Dulles International (KIAD / IAD)Map | Region / Country: | Virginia, United States |
Photo Date: | 5 June 2016 |
Photo by: | Arjun SarupContact |