page_title: Nakajima B5N
section_title: Surviving aircraft
hierarchical_section_title: Nakajima B5N / Surviving aircraft
caption_attribution_description: English: This example of a Nakajima B5N2 likely served in the Pacific Theater of WWII before being shot down or abandoned on a South Pacific island. Over the years, many parts were stripped from the plane by souvenir hunters before the wreck was acquired on behalf of the Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor (now know as the Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum) in 2016. Museum volunteers assembled together the remnants of the fuselage, wing base, and starboard wing tip, in addition to fabricating new landing gear for display purposes. The original Hinomaru symbol of the Imperial Japanese Navy is still visible on the underside of the starboard wing tip. This B5N2 reconstruction is the most intact aircraft of it's type known to still exist. The complete reconstruction was unveiled in the museum's Hangar 37 exhibit hall in 2019.
context_page_description: The Nakajima B5N was the standard carrier-based torpedo bomber of the Imperial Japanese Navy for much of World War II.
  Although the B5N was substantially faster and more capable than its Allied counterparts, the American Douglas TBD Devastator monoplane, and the British Fairey Swordfish and Fairey Albacore torpedo biplanes, it was nearing obsolescence by 1941. Nevertheless, the B5N operated throughout the whole war, due to the delayed development of its successor, the B6N.
  In the early part of the Pacific War, flown by well-trained IJN aircrews and as part of well-coordinated attacks, the B5N achieved particular successes at the battles of Pearl Harbor, Coral Sea, Midway, and Santa Cruz Islands.
context_section_description: None of the 1,150 production B5Ns survived World War II intact. Only two partially-recovered B5Ns are known to exist, neither of them airworthy.
  Replicas of the B5N2s were made using stretched fuselages from U.S. North American T-6 Texan trainers, which were modified to represent Japanese aircraft for the movie Tora! Tora! Tora!, and have been used in a number of movies and airshows since to depict the aircraft.
  One recovered B5N2 is at the Wings Museum in Balcombe, West Sussex, UK. This large portion was recovered from the Kuril Islands by a British private collector in 2003.
  A B5N was unveiled at the Pacific Aviation Museum in Honolulu, Hawaii on 18 April 2016.
caption: Nakajima B5N2 "Kate" reconstruction at the Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum in 2019. The original Hinomaru is still visible on the starboard wing underside.
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