With its low-wing cantilever monoplane layout, retractable wide-set conventional landing gear, and enclosed cockpit, the Zero was one of the most modern carrier-based aircraft in the world at …

The Museum’s A6M5 Zero was license-built by the Nakajima Aircraft Company in Oizumi, Gunma, Japan in May 1943. It entered service in July 1943 with the 261st Kokutai (Air Group), where it …

Aug 27, 2022 · Imperial Japanese Navy, 10,939 built. Just named colloquially “zero” and still popularly known as such today, the A6M, or “Mitsubishi Navy Type 0 carrier fighter” (零式艦上 …

Nov 28, 2023 · Planes of Fame’s Mitsubishi A6M5 “Zero”, which will feature in Saturday’s “Flying Demo”, is one such example of a combat aircraft that survived WWII due to its technology, the …

Feb 10, 2024 · In spite of an increase in all-up weight of 440 pounds, the A6M5 was faster than the A6M3 Model 32, and could reach a maximum level speed of 351 mph at 19,685 feet. More …

A6M5 (Navy Type 0 Carrier Fighter Model 52) two A6M2 aircraft fitted with experimental turbo-supercharged Sakae engine tested by First Naval Air Technical Arsenal in 1943

In spite of an increase in all-up weight of 440 pounds, the A6M5 was faster than the A6M3 Model 32, and could reach a maximum level speed of 351 mph at 19,685 feet. It had a more powerful …

Powerplant A6M5: One Nakajima NK1C Sakae 12, fourteen cyl., air-cooled, radial engine rated at 940 hp for takeoff and 950 hp @ 13,780 ft (4,200 m), driving a three-blade metal propeller.

The A6M5 (Type 0 carrier fighter Model 52) of 1943-1944 probably represents the design peak of the Zero fighter.

A6M5 Model 52 was the major production version, introduced in 1943. Primarily designed to counter the increasingly capable Allied fighters and had several sub-variants incluuding the …