Aviation of Japan 日本の航空史: Mystery Aeroplane 飛行機の謎

Friday, 21 March 2008

Mystery Aeroplane 飛行機の謎

Although small and of of poor quality these photographs show an abandoned Japanese aeroplane found at Meiktila in Burma by advancing Allied troops.

It carries the tail code "C1-05". What is it?

Image credit: D Klingham via Straggler

4 comments:

Anonymous said...: Your mystery plane looks like a "Babs" or a Mitsubishi C5M Type 98 Land Reconnaissance.
The spatted wheels and the long greenhouse are the key ID points.

Carlos; 3 June 2008 at 02:58
Straggler 脱走兵 said...: Thanks Carlos. You are the only person who has ventured a suggestion for this aircraft's identity and it is a good one.

However, the aircraft is actually a Mitsubishi B5M1 "Mabel".; 3 June 2008 at 08:28
Anonymous said...: Hi Nick! I was just gonna e-mail you to say it's a B5M when I noticed the "2 comments" link :); 23 September 2008 at 23:08
Bill D said...: These surprise shots are some of only a very few photos of operational Mabels. Thanks.; 19 June 2010 at 03:44

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