Japan's 1st postwar plane moved to theme park by road

The first passenger plane to be mass produced in Japan after World War II was transported by trailer through the streets of Tokyo early Saturday on its way to a theme park in a nearby prefecture.After leaving Haneda airport around midnight, the trailer carrying the fuselage of the very first YS11 propeller plane to roll off the production line passed through Shinagawa, Ueno and other city districts on a five-hour, 120-kilometer journey to Hirosawa City theme park in Ibaraki Prefecture.The wings and other parts of the plane have already been shipped to the theme park in Chikusei, where mecha…READ FULL ARTICLE