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Where to see the Nakajima B6N Tenzan in the UK
The only survivor is held by the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in the United States.
3D model
The B6N2 ‘コ-B6-11’ in 3D
A procedural model built in Blender from the type’s published dimensions, painted as Nakajima B6N2 Tenzan (Allied name ‘Jill’) coded ‘コ-B6-11’, a wartime Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft photographed on an airfield in Japan: a three-seat carrier torpedo bomber with a Mitsubishi Kasei 25 fourteen-cylinder radial driving a four-bladed propeller, a long glazed canopy over pilot, navigator and radio operator-gunner, a low folding wing spanning 14.9 m, a fin raked forward to fit carrier lifts and a tailwheel undercarriage, shown tail down on its wheels with a Type 91 torpedo slung offset to starboard: dark green overall, undersides included, a blue-black cowling, light grey main-leg doors and wheel covers, red hinomaru with white surrounds on the fuselage and upper wings and plain red under the wings, the code ‘コ-B6-11’ in white on the fin and rudder, a brown spinner and brown propeller blades with yellow tips (shape from a B6N2 three-view scaled to the published span and length, checked against a second three-view and wartime photographs of this aircraft). Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom · all 352 models · download .glb (1.1 MB) · Plate 157 in The Hangar
Type notes
The Nakajima B6N Tenzan in brief
| Type | Nakajima B6N Tenzan (B6N2 (Allied name ‘Jill’)) |
|---|---|
| UK museums holding one | None |
