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The Shin Meiwa PS-1 and US-1A is a large STOL aircraft designed for anti-submarine warfare (ASW) and air-sea rescue (SAR) work respectively by Japanese aircraft manufacturer Shin Meiwa. The PS-1 anti-submarine warfare (ASW) variant is a flying boat which carried its own beaching gear on board, while the search-and-rescue (SAR) orientated US-1A ...
ShinMaywa Industries, Ltd. (新明和工業株式会社, Shin-Meiwa Kōgyō Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese industrial conglomerate descended from the Kawanishi Aircraft Company. Founded as Shin Meiwa Industries in 1949, the company was rebranded as ShinMaywa during 1992. Prior to this, the company was also known as Shin Meiwa Industry co., Ltd ...
During 1969, the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) issued a production order to Japanese seaplane manufacturer Shin Meiwa for a group of 21 anti-submarine aircraft, which were given the designation PS-1. [2] The service had also opted to procure a variant of the type, designated US-1A, specifically for search-and-rescue (SAR).
ShinMaywa US-2, developed in the 2000s in Japan from the older Shin Meiwa US-1A. Despite the gains of amphibious floats, small flying-boat amphibians continued to be developed into the 1960s, with the Republic Seabee and Lake LA-4 series proving popular, though neither was a commercial success due to factors beyond their makers' control.
Shin Meiwa PS-1: Japan: maritime patrol: 1971: retired 1989: 23: flying boat, one modified (1976) for aerial firefighting; replaced by Lockheed P-3 Orion: Shin Meiwa UF-XS: Japan: research: 1962: retired 1967: 1: converted Grumman HU-16 Albatross testbed aircraft ShinMaywa US-1/US-1A: Japan: SAR: 1975: retired 2017: 20
K-3 - 1921 multipurpose transport aircraft developed from the K-1; K-5 - 1922 floatplane mail plane; K-6 - 1923 three-seat biplane airliner; K-7A Transport Seaplane - 1925 six-seat biplane floatplane airliner; K-7B Mail-carrying Aircraft - mail plane modification of K-7A; K-8 Transport Seaplane - 1926 floatplane mail plane; K-9 - cargo aircraft ...
Shin Meiwa US-1A; ShinMaywa US-2 This page was last edited on 3 January 2014, at 08:36 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
The prototype first flew as the Yokosho 2-Go (long designation: Yokosuka Arsenal No. 2 Reconnaissance Seaplane (横廠式二号水上偵察機)) in 1929. The aircraft was a single-seat biplane that could be quickly assembled and disassembled so that it could be stored on board a submarine.