The Nakajima G5N Shinzan (Type 2 Land Attack Plane Model 11) codenamed 'Liz' by the Allies, was a Japanese heavy bomber used as a transport aircraft during the Second World War. The Nakajima G5N was designed by Mitsubishi as the G5M but this design was unsuccessful and Nakajima modified it and produced the G5N as a heavy bomber, which was never used as a bomber but instead was used as a transport. The Nakajima G5N was a low-wing cantilever monoplane of all-metal construction powered by four Nakajima Mamoru 14-cylinder two-row air-cooled engines. The bomber version of the aircraft was designed to carry a crew of eight or nine, as a transport the number of crew is unknown but it could carry between twenty and twenty-five equipped troops or freight. Research Nakajima G5N
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