The broken-down aircraft and engine were sent to Kobe, Japan in early 1944. It is probable that the airframe was on the Japanese submarine "RO-501" (ex-"U-1224"), which left Kiel, Germany on 30 March 1944 and was sunk in the mid-Atlantic on 13 May 1944 by the hunter-killer group based on the escort carrier . Plans and engines were on the Japanese submarine "I-29", which left Lorient, France on 16 April 1944 and arrived in Singapore on 14 July 1944, later sunk by the submarine on 26 July 1944, near the Philippines, after leaving Singapore.