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Nakajima Ki-43
Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa "Peregrine Falcon".jpg
Nakajima Ki-43.
Role Fighter aircraft
National origin Japan.
Manufacturer Nakajima
First flight 1939
Introduction 1942
Status Out of service.
Primary user Japan Air Force.
Number built 5919

The Nakajima Ki-43 was one of the major fighter aircrafts of the World War II in Japan. Called Oscar by the Allies it was used in all major Japaneses operations between 1942 and 1945. After the war it was used by China, France, Indonesia, and North Korea.

Images for kids

  • Nakajima Ki-43-II

    A Ki-43-II.

  • Ki43 NAN15Apr43

    A downed Ki-43 of the 50th Sentai

  • Chiran high school girls wave kamikaze pilot

    A Ki-43 IIIa, piloted by Second Lieutenant Toshio Anazawa and carrying a 250 kg (550 lb) bomb, sets off from the Japanese airfield of Chiran for the Okinawa area, on a kamikaze mission, 12 April 1945. Schoolgirls wave goodbye in the foreground.

  • Wagner Book (16336681455)

    A captured Ki-43-IIIa of the 48th Sentai, postwar

  • Ki-43-I captured in flight over Brisbane 1943

    A captured Ki-43-Ib in flight over Brisbane, 1943

  • ROCAF Ki-43

    Chinese operated Ki-43-I

  • Ki-43-I at Rabaul 1945

    The Flying Heritage Collection Ki-43 at Rabaul, 1945

  • Ki-43 Hayabuya Kagoshima Japan

    Ki-43 Hayabusa display outside Chiran Peace Museum for Kamikaze Pilots, Minamikyūshū, Kagoshima, Japan

  • AURI Oscar

    Indonesian Ki-43-II

  • Nakajima Ki-43 Airplane

    Ki-43 at the Pima Air and Space Museum

See also

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