The Aichi E13A, code named Jake by the Allied was a reconnaissance seaplane operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Second World War. A total of 1418 were built.
Post war eight were operated by French forces in Indo-China, while several obtained by Thailand were operated into the 1950s before being retired.
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Photos of wrecked Aichi E13A Seaplanes
Aichi E13A Palawan Philippines 1945Aichi E13A Jake Sinking off Formosa 1944Aichi E13A floatplanes at Seletar airfield 1945Aichi E13A and USS LST-806 Palawan, Philippines 1945Brown Beach, Labuan Island 1945 US personnel inspecting the wreck of an Aichi E13AWreck of an Aichi E13A Jake on Saipan July 1944Wreck of an Aichi E13A Jake on Saipan July 1944
Photos of Captured Aichi E13A Seaplanes
Aichi E13A floatplanes at Tatayama Air Base 1945Captured Aichi E13A Yo-31 of the Yokosuka Kokutai, 1945Captured Aichi E13A Yo-31 of the Yokosuka Kokutai, 1945An Aichi E13A reconnaissance seaplane is loaded aboard a flatbed truck at Seletar airfield by members of 126 Repair and Salvage Unit (RAF)Aichi E13A1A captured at Rabaul in September 1945. It passed into RNZAF possession and was flown to RNZAF Station Jacquinot Bay, where a month later it sank at its moorings
