Public given chance to see reassembly of Japan's 1st postwar plane

The public will be able to observe the reassembling of Japan's first postwar mass-produced passenger plane from Saturday at a theme park, three months after parts of the aircraft were transported from a hangar at Haneda airport.The process will be shown free of charge at Hirosawa City theme park in Ibaraki Prefecture until July 26. The very first YS-11 propeller plane ever made is expected to go on display in complete form next spring.The fuselage and other parts of the plane were transported by trailer to the theme park in March from the Tokyo airport, where the aircraft had been stored by…READ FULL ARTICLE