The first mass-produced domestic passenger aircraft, the YS11, moved to Ibaraki on land by land on March 28 at 6:56.
The first mass-produced aircraft of the first domestic passenger aircraft "YS11" after the war was delivered by a large trailer from Haneda Airport to a new storage facility in Ibaraki Prefecture in the early morning of March 28, and it took about 5 hours. .
The YS11 was the first domestic passenger aircraft to operate Japan's regular route for 41 years from 1965 to 2006, and 182 aircraft including prototypes were produced.
Of these, the first mass-produced unit was retired in 1998 and was taken over by the National Science Museum and stored in the hangar at Haneda Airport. It has been moved to the public facility "The Hirosawa City" where it can be opened.
Since the aircraft needs to be transported by land, the ship was dismantled over a period of four months from September last year. During the day on the 27th, the fuselage and the left and right wings were loaded onto separate large trailers using cranes. Was.
A trailer carrying a fuselage approximately 25 meters long departed from Haneda Airport around midnight on March 28 and slowly passed through a low-traffic late-night road.
After about a five-hour journey, about 120 km, we arrived at a private facility in Chikusei at around 5:00 am on the 28th.
The aircraft will be rebuilt again in the future, and the National Science Museum hopes to see and release this autumn.
"I'm sure it's safe to end, and the dream of 20 years has finally come true from the storage of the public, so I hope that many people will see it. I want to do that. "
Mechanic OBs gather and dismantle
An unprecedented project of dismantling and transporting an airplane so that it can be assembled again, full-scale work began in September.
The work was carried out by about 20 OBs of airlines who have been maintaining airplanes for many years, and they are only veterans around 70 years old.
To assemble the aircraft in its original condition, we started by checking which parts could be removed using a maintenance manual.
The dismantling began with the removal of the propellers and engines on the wings, and then proceeded to the tail and wings.
Originally, detachable engines and tires remove bolts and screws one by one, and parts that are permanently connected so that they can not be removed, such as parts of the main wing, carefully cut off that part, and on land We dismantled it to a size that could be carried.
The work to remove the main wing from the largest fuselage took place over two days in January, and the demolition work that began in September ended in four months.
Masahiro Sato, 73, a leader of the dismantling team who has been involved in the maintenance of YS11 for about 10 years, said, "It was a really fun and fast end because the experienced people gathered. I also understood the hardships of the people.I thought that it was important to leave the first mass-produced aircraft in Japan in order to see the real thing as the first airplane after the war and see it. " I was talking.