Shin-Meiwa Kōgyō
| Shin-Meiwa Kōgyō
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| legal form | Kabushiki kaisha (joint stock company) |
| ISIN | JP3384600007 |
| founding | November 1949 |
| Seat |
Takarazuka , Japan
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| management | Yoshihiro Onishi |
| Number of employees | 4,695 (March 31, 2016) |
| sales | 193.1 billion yen (1.5 billion euro ) |
| Branch | Transport equipment |
| Website | www.shinmaywa.co.jp |
| As of March 31, 2015 | |
Shin-Meiwa Kōgyō KK ( Japanese 新 明 和 工業 株式会社 , Shin-Meiwa Kōgyō kabushiki kaisha , English ShinMaywa Industries, Ltd. ) is a Japanese vehicle and equipment manufacturer.
history
Shin-Meiwa emerged from the Kawanishi company , which was founded in 1928 and which produced several types of aircraft and flying boats (e.g. H6K , H8K and N1K ) before and during the Second World War . Since the production of aircraft was banned in Japan after the end of the Second World War, according to the surrender conditions, the company dissolved in 1945. However, it reorganized itself in 1949 under the name Shin-Meiwa and initially dealt primarily with the overhaul of various American and Japanese aircraft models. At the beginning of the 1960s, the conversion of a Grumman Albatros into a UF-XS with a new drive and a newly constructed fuselage marked the beginning of the company's own aircraft development. The first flight of the UF-XS took place on December 25, 1962 and after a successful series of tests, which continued until 1964, the company received an order from the Japanese Ministry of Defense in January 1966 to develop a flying boat called PS-1 for sea surveillance and submarine hunting . The first flight of the first prototype took place on October 5, 1967, and delivery to the Japanese Navy began in the early 1970s. By 1978, 21 machines had been delivered, although these were taken out of service in 1989 due to high operating costs. The company had meanwhile developed the machine into the US-1 designed for sea rescue , which had its first flight on October 16, 1974. Twenty of these machines were delivered to JMSDF between March 1975 and 2004 and are still in service today. In 1992 the manufacturer changed its English name to ShinMaywa and began in November 1996 with the development of a new flying boat which was initially US-1A Kai and later called US-2 . The first flight took place on December 18, 2003 and the first delivery to the 71st squadron in Iwakuni took place in February 2009. The production of six more machines is currently planned.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Company Profile
- ↑ Annual Report 2015
- ^ Wilfried Copenhagen : Lexicon aviation. , Transpress, Berlin 1979, p. 315
- ↑ FliegerRevue December 2010, pp. 24–27, ShinMaywa US-2 - Japanese Sea Monster