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    Airframe Family: Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa
    Latest Model:Ki-43 (replica) Hayabusa
    Compressed ID:Nakajima Ki-43 (replica)
    Latest Owner or Location:Museum of Flight, Boeing Field, Seattle, Washington

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    Constructed as a Ki-43 (replica).
    The Museums aircraft depicts a Tachikawa-built Ki-43-IIIa of the 3rd Chutai (Fighter Squadron), 54th Sentai (Fighter Group), based on Shumshu in the Kurile Islands in 1945, from whence it defended the Japanese Home Islands against raids by American bombers based in the Aleutian Islands. This Haybusa reproduction incorporates parts from four wrecked Ki-43s recovered from Shumshu by the noted warbird collector Doug Champlin in the 1990s. GossHawk Unlimited of Casa Grande, Arizona, completed the reproduction in 2008, with Col. Hiroo Murata, Japan Air Self-Defense Force (Ret.), as technical advisor.

    To Museum of Flight, Boeing Field, Seattle, WA.
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    29 June 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2012 photo in Museum of Flight at Seattle
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