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Re: Recovered Ki-61 "Tony"
Posted by Rohb Greinert on Thu Jun 19, 2003 07:11:22 PM
In reply top Re: Recovered Ki-61 "Tony" posted by Cees Broere on Thu Jun 19, 2003 10:38:11 AM
Yes Cees it is. The tail went missing after recovery when the machine was in transit sorage to Moresby. Apparently it ended up on the Weeks machine but this occurred before Kermit purchased it.
: Rob,
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: Could this be the airframe that was supposed to be lifted
: by the RAAF at the end of the eighties when they recovered
: several Japanese airframes from PNG?
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: I read in FlyPast at the time that they had found a Ki61 i
: n excellent condition and that they had dissasembled it re
: ady for lifting by helicopter. When they came back to pick
: it up the tail had been removed.
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: Cees
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