M57 · Later museum collection and restoration account

The Val restoration and its crew

Two-person D3A crew and distinction between a composite museum restoration and an identified wartime aircraft.

Author: Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum
Date: 26 September 2022
Passage: Our Newest Acquisition: crew description and recovered-airframe assembly

What has been checked

Web account read, including crew and restoration passages.

How to read it

Not an original aircraft manual or Midway record. No performance figure, precise restoration variant or Midway provenance inferred from the collection object. Pearl Harbor tactical narrative not adopted.

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Aichi D3A1 Val

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