Video: From jungle to sky

By General Aviation News Staff · July 4, 2017 ·

The population of flyable Japanese Zeros has grown by one.

Plucked from the Papua New Guinean jungle, a restored Japanese Zero fighter has taken to the skies pic.twitter.com/R6IJ9D9871

— AFP News Agency (@AFP) June 27, 2017

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Sam says

July 5, 2017 at 4:32 pm

Correct me if I am wrong, but hasn’t this Zero been flying in the USA already? So the Zero population is not really gaining another flying zero although I wish that was the case.
Tom says

July 5, 2017 at 6:15 am

Congratulations (Omedeto gozaimasu!) to the restorers of this fabulous aircraft!