Help with Translation please on a IJN airplane Stenciled Data Plate

[beretta1934]

This much I have figured out - Its from a Navy Type 93 Intermediate Trainer K5Y1 " Willow". These were the main intermediate trainer aircraft for the IJN throughout the war. I am not sure what the other Kanji indicates except the serial number for this aircraft is 6573.

If the name of the manufacturer is in this stencil the manufacturers were:

"After the initial 60 examples by Kawanishi , production was continued by Watanabe (556 aircraft built), Mitsubishi (60), Hitachi (1,393), First Naval Air Technical Arsenal (75), Nakajima (24), Nippon (2,733), and Fuji (896)"

Really fun piece and the bright orangish paint is the main color of all IJN trainers for "other pilot" awareness.

As an interesting footnote - A K5Y of the Kamikaze Special Attack Corps 3rd Ryuko Squadron was credited with sinking the destroyer USS Callaghan on July 29, 1945, the LAST US warship lost to kamikaze attack during the war.

[GHP]

The stencil says pretty much what you know:

九三水中練日飛 6573 号

Here's the breakdown to the abbreviations used:

九三 93
水中 in water [水中 suichū] this also means "under water," but not in this case, I think.
練 Training [練習 renshū]
日 Japan [日本 Nippon]
飛 Aircraft [飛行機 hikōki]
6573
号 number [gō]


Note the caption under the photo pontoon aircraft says: 九三水中練

[beretta1934]

Thanks Guy! Excellent! So this was built in a fixed landing gear and a float plane version and the stencil seems to point (水中 "in water") to a float plane configuration! Very cool!

[Staldion]

Very cool to see a piece of an akatombo ! Thanks.

[Ryukyutunnelrat]

very cool. the 3rd Ryuko Squadron was stationed on Miyako Jima (where my mother is from) during the war about a 30 min flight from Okinawa. Thanks for sharing. David.

Here is a link with info on the squadron:
http://wgordon.web.wesleyan.edu/kami...jima/index.htm