A short but gorgeous and very rare video today features a Nakajima AT-2, the predecessor and civilian version of the IJAAF Ki-34 transport. Its civilian registration is J-BBOK and originally flown by Nihon Koku Yuso (Japan Air Transport) and then by Dai Nippon Koku (Imperial Japanese Airways. According to a source, it was also loaned to Chuka Koku (China Airways). After takeoff in March 1939, the engine malfunctioned and the plane made an emergency landing outside the Beijing West Suburban Airport. A month later was removed from the fleet of the airline.
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