The Museum’s A6M5 Zero was license-built by the Nakajima Aircraft Company in Oizumi, Gunma, Japan in May 1943. It entered service in July 1943 with the 261st Kokutai (Air Group), where it most likely flew patrols over Nagasaki on the Japanese island of Kyushu.

Nov 28, 2023 · The Planes of Fame Air Museum’s Mitsubishi ‘Zero’ is an A6M5 Model 52, perhaps the most effective variant of the type. The Nakajima Aircraft Company (Nakajima Hikoki Kabushiki Kaisha) produced this example, under license, as …

Sep 20, 2019 · The cockpit color for a Nakajima manufactured A6M5 will be a grayish-yellow-green similar to but distinctly more yellow than RAF interior green. The cockpit color for Mitsubishi built A6M5's will be closer to US Interior green but darker.

Richards, M. C. and Donald S. Smith; "Mitsubishi A6M5 to A6M8 Zero-Sen ('Zeke 52')," in Aircraft in Profile - Volume 12; Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1974

Jun 21, 2016 · Besides the camo division line on the rear fuselage, what are the differences between planes made by the two manufacturers?

May 22, 2023 · Mitsubishi vs. Nakajima A6M5 Differences (REF 1): The windscreen framing at the very front where it meets the fuselage is notched on Nakajima aircraft to accommodate the fuel tank filler.

Nakajima-built A6M5 model 52 Zero, s/n 1303 [61-121] belonging to the 261 kokutai, is a well known and documented survivor from the hord captured on Saipan. It was the 303rd Nakajima-built A6M5 completed in March 1944 and captured in June.

Dec 1, 2017 · This Mitsubishi A6M5, captured at Saipan in July 1944 and now maintained by Planes of Fame, is the only Zero still flying with its original Nakajima Sakae 31 engine.

Detail cockpit view of the Planes of Fame Air Museum's very rare Mitsubishi A6M5 Model 52 Zero; c/n 5357, NX46770. This aircraft is the only authentic flyable example of the Zero in the world and is powered by its original Nakajima Sakae 31 radial engine.

The A6M5 Zero 61-120 on display at the Planes of Fame Air Museum, Chino, Calif. is the worlds’ only authentic flying example of the Mitsubishi A6M5 model 52 Zero. Completed in May 1943 at the Nakajima Aircraft Corporations’ Koizumi factory, it was the 2357th Zero produced. 61-120’s first assignment was with the Imperial Japanese