Nihon aircraft manufacturing Corporation (日本航空機製造) YS-11

YS-11

     YS-11 is the first commercial airplane which was made in Japan after the World War Second. Right after the war, the General HeadQuaters (GHQ) and the government of United States prohibited all things about to make and study airplanes from 1945 to 1952 because United States was afraid of Mitsubishi A6M Zero Fighter and aerospace engineering ability of Japan during the war. 

Under such things, engineers dreamed to make new airplane, and they made YS-11. YS-11 was designed by five engineers, and all of them designed many fighter airplanes during the war. Of cause, Horikoshi Jiro who designed A6M Zero fighter participated the team to make YS-11. 

 the test model of YS-11

In resent years, most YS-11 have already retired because it has fly for about 50 years. However, Japan Self Air Defense Force is using the airplane as a person transportation airplane now. 

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