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The Ki-46 was designed for long-range strategic reconnaissance. Its official designation was ‘Army Type 100 Command Reconnaissance Aircraft’ but it was known to the Allies as the ‘Dinah’. Some 1,700 were built of which this is the only surviving example.
It is believed to have served with 81st Sentai, 3rd Chutai, Imperial Japanese Army Air Force, based in Burma during 1944 as the units markings were found during restoration in 1975. At the end of the war it was made airworthy and used by the Allied Technical Air Intelligence Unit, South East Asia (ATAIU SEA) based at Tebrau, Malaya. Shipped to the UK for museum purposes, it arrived in August 1946 and went in to store for the Air Historical Branch. By 1970 she was at RAF St Athan and underwent restoration there between 1975 and 1981. She stayed at Cosford until 1989 when she moved to Cosford. A further restoration was then carried out, with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries supplying £30,000 in funding. She was unveiled in 1993 and has remained at Cosford ever since, currently being on display in the ‘War in the Air’ hangar.
RAF Museum, Cosford, Shropshire, UK.
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9th June 2018
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/people/65001151@N03">Alan Wilson</a> from Peterborough, Cambs, UK
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