WWII Japanese Aircraft Seat

[nd164th]

Seems this may be Japanese, any idea what plane its from
thanks

[nd164th]

pics

[FightenIrish35]

It would be very hard to pin down the type of plane it was used in . IMO. A bomber crew seat. Any markings anywhere ?

[Alan Smith]

What makes you think it is Japanese? The handwritten markings on it look like typical immediate post-WWII army surplus store markings.

I love the price: it started off at $3.00 and was later cut to $1.00.

I can easily see this being something salvaged from scrap U.S. aircraft located Stateside, ending up in the local Army/Navy store.

[FightenIrish35]

I'm at work so I don't have my Japanese Aircraft Equipment book with me. A good sign towards it being Japanese is the paint . A very distinctive color the Japanese used on their aircrafts . I also feel as if I've seen this in photos as well . I will take a look when I get home . Good chance it could be Japanese .

[Papa Nambu]

Doing a quick image search of pictures of Japanese aircraft cockpits I don't see any like this. If there are some markings that you've found to lead you to believe it's Japanese, that's what we need to see. Otherwise I think Allen is right about it.

[Alan Smith]

Correction to my post: it looks like the original sale price was $2.00 (not $3.00), later marked down to $1.00.

I don't know much about WWII Japanese aircraft parts, bits, pieces, etc., so I'll sit back and let the experts figure this one out.

[FightenIrish35]

Unless their are marking on this seat we will never know if it is actually out of a Japanese aircraft.

The color paint used is a great indicator it could be Japanese.

Here are images of the seat used in a Shinden as well as Aichi M6a1 Seiran.
They are quite similar but not exact to seat here in question.

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[blinky]

It's similar but not quite right for any Japanese seat I've seen. Some are this general shape but have vertical ridges pressed into the back for strength. A few have this shape but the riveting is very different, the edge is riveted in place rather than folded, have many more rivets in the body of the seat for added strength, etc.. I can't think of any that have the slots at the top like this one does. Maybe the closest that I can think of is the pilots seat for the Ki-45 but.....good luck finding a decent picture of it.

The color.....could be British. Similar in shape to the Spitfire and several others. Could be a very faded US zinc chromate.....

[J7W22007]

I used to own lots of WWII models aircrafts.

Too bad I got rid off them, otherwise I can identify it by looking at the construction sheet.

I think by checking model aircrafts, will able to find out. 1/48 or 1/32 are good because models nowadays are very accurate.

They even have accurate numbers and sizes of rivets in the cockpits.

For now I know it is not from a Japanee P1Y1 Ginga Bomber. I'm still searching....

Regards,
Taka

[nd164th]

I have looked and no markings I can see

[FightenIrish35]

Please post this on http://www.j-aircraft.org/smf/index.php

These guys are wealth of knowledge regarding the interior and extertiors of aircraft.

I would be very curious as to what they have to say.

[nd164th]

Im not a member of that site, if anyome wants to post it on there that is fine

[blinky]

It's US Navy. Pattern used in the F4F Wildcat (among others).

As stated before, not Japanese.

[FightenIrish35]

Not Japanese,but boy that's cool.

Thanks for pinning it down Blinky.