This aircraft is a long-term restoration project for the Imperial War Museum and is totally original. It was recovered from Taroa in the Marshall Islands in 1991 having been ditched and recovered. It had been a part of the 252nd Japanese Naval Air Group that had been based there in 1942 and 1943, Though badly corroded and with its engine missing it seems somehow poignant in that state

A6M-5-52 Zero built by Nakajima. Captured at the end of WW2 and exhibited at the Air Museum at Ontario. Now airworthy as N46770 based at Chino.

This magnificent aircraft is seen at the Wings Over Gillespie airshow.

The Yushukan war museum, next to the controversial Yasukuni shrine, paints an strange picture of Japan's role in World War II. This Zero was built in Nagoya in late 1943. It served in Rabaul where it was abandoned in 1945.