Fictional | Local Legend IX : Latecoere 631 | Imperial Japanese Airways v1.0.1
This is a fictional livery of Japan Airways. (Also known as Imperial Japanese Airways or Dai Nippon Koku KK, not related to Japan Airlines).
- Japan Airways was started their business in 1938 by merging some airlines.
- They operated flights to domestic routes, as well as to China, Taiwan, Korea, Saipan and Palau.
- They used the Kawanishi H6K to link Palau and the South Seas Mandate from Yokohama via Saipan.
- After WW2, GHQ banned all aviation activities of Japan and this company was dissolved.
Their seaplanes was named after IJN destroyer and I named this aircraft as well. 榊(Sakaki) is the name of a tree, and often used in Shinto rituals in Japan as a sacred leaf. The destroyer Sakaki was commissioned in 1915 and became famous in Europe when they entered WW1 as part of the Second Special Squadron. One day, Sakaki was attacked by U-boat and 59 crew were killed, and they are still enshrined in Malta. Their activities contributed greatly to the improvement of Japan’s international status after WW1 (unfortunately, I don’t need to tell you about the international status after that).
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