B5N2 Kate restoration

[72modeler]

Found this just now while trolling for schemes; evidently a B5N2 recovered from Papua, New Guinea is being restored to static display status. See the link below as well as an additional link to this aircraft's history. I would rather see a TBD, but the Kate was also a very historically significant aircraft, and just as rare.

Mike

 

http://warbirdsnews.com/warbirds-news/nakajima-kate-unveiled-pacific-aviation-museum-pearl-harbor.html

 

https://www.pacificwrecks.com/aircraft/b5n/jacquinot.html

[Bigglesof266]

So very pleased to see it, but a super expensive, mammoth task. The "Kate" is such a symbolically significant type of the era and IJN.

[Navy Bird]

I wonder how far along the restoration is, seeing as the articles are from 2016. I couldn't seem to find anything newer.

 

Cheers,

Bill

[Steve N]

I'm not sure if any actual work gas started on it.  I get the impression that the museum isn't exactly rolling in cash.  I don't mean that as an insult or anything, just that like most museums they don't have a huge budget and need to stretch every penny as far as they can..and they can't just dump a ton of cash into a massive restoration project.

 

SN