Smithsonian P1Y Ginga

[Forgotten Field]

I have found a photo of a captured P1Y Ganga and am wondering if it is the one in the Smithsonian. Does anybody have any information available on their "Frances?"

[Marauderman26]

https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-o ... 9600340000

[mike furline]

https://www.crouze.com/baugher/captured ... ft_00.html
FE-N1700 Kugisho P1Y1-C Ginga
Captured at Matsushima. Shipped from Yokosuka, Japan to the USA 3Nov45 on USS Barnes (CVE-20), arriving
Norfolk, Virginia 7Dec45. Atlantic Overseas Air Materiel Center, Newark Field, New Jersey. T-2 Office of Air Force
Intelligence, Technical Data Laboratory, Air Materiel Command, Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio. Renumbered as T2-N1700.

FE-N1701 Kugisho P1Y1-C Ginga
Captured at Matsushima. Shipped from Yokosuka, Japan to the USA 3Nov45 on USS Barnes (CVE-20), arriving Norfolk,
Virginia 7Dec45. Atlantic Overseas Air Materiel Center, Newark Field, New Jersey. T-2 Office of Air Force
Intelligence, Technical Data Laboratory, Air Materiel Command, Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio. Renumbered as T2-N1701.

FE-N1702 Kugisho P1Y1-C Ginga
(MSN 8923) Captured at Matsushima. Shipped from Yokosuka, Japan to the USA 3Nov45 on USS Barnes (CVE-20),
arriving Norfolk, Virginia 7Dec45. Atlantic Overseas Air Materiel Center, Newark Field, New Jersey. T-2 Office of
Air Force Intelligence, Technical Data Laboratory, Air Materiel Command, Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio.
Renumbered as T2-N1702.

Kugisho P1Y1-C Ginga in USAAF markings. Three Kugisho (Yokosuka) P1Y1 were shipped to the USA in 1945, USAAF FE-1700 and FE-1701 were scrapped at Newark. Kugisho P1Y1 (Serial No. 8923), FE-1702 is stored with the NASM.