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Stork Dream Airplane コウノトリ・夢ひこうき
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JA8887
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2006-10
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This design was the result of a local contest among children from Toyooka Elementary School near Tajima, Hyogo Prefecture and won by Akana Yamamoto. The Oriental white storks, a Japanese Special Natural Monument, are now bred and raised in the local Hyogo Park after having gone extinct from the region. In an ironic turn of events on November 29th, 2009, this aircraft suffered a birdstrike -probably with a heron- during takeoff at Izumi; it left substantial damage to the airplane including a 14x18 centimeter dent left of the nose cone.
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