JAKE SEA PLANE

History:
•  Japanese - Aichi E13A1-1 Navy Floatplane
•  Built in 1941
•  Long range & high speed reconnaissance seaplane
•  3-seat, single engine, twin float
•  15 hr maximum endurance
•  Range of 1,128 nautical miles
•  Primary role – bombing missions against land and shipping targets, air-sea rescues, staff transport & kamikaze sorties
•  Destroyed 1944 – shafting hit to aft
•  Sits upright, mostly intact

Armament:
•  A single 250kg bomb or four 60kg bombs or depth charges

Artifacts:
•  Radios, ammunition – small bomb inside cockpit to the right of the aft seat

Marine Life:
•  Crocodile fish , Batfish, Octopus, Cuttlefish, whitecap Shrimp & Nudi branchs
•  Surrounding shallow patch reef – Sponges, Staghorn Lettuce, Brain, & Table corals, small sea Whips and colorful juvenile tropical fish