Special Hobby 1/72 Tachikawa Ki-54Hei ‘ Hickory’ Plastic Model Kit

The Ki-54 Hickory was a WW2 Japanese twin-engine aeroplane and was manufactured in four main versions used for pilots training, wireless operators and navigators training, aerial gunnery training and finally the version used for both transport and anti-submarine patrols. The first incarnation of our kit is the transport variety and brings three Japanese airframes, one of which in two guises. Among the schemes you will also find the Ki-54 Hei / Hickory no.5541 which had to make an emergency landing on Towada lake on 27 September 1943. The plane was found and fished out of the lake on 5 September 2012 and was put on display at the Misawa museum. (This is an old series kit number but a brand new kit)