Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26073628-20150319030839/@comment-26574811-20161213133048

87.11.115.86 wrote: Vcharng wrote: Shinano carried 51 aircrafts IRL because:

1. That's pretty much all the planes IJN could offer to one CV at the time she was (nearly) completed.

2. She was unable to be remodeled throughly due to lack of time and money, causing her hangar space to be severely limited by the original superstructure of a Yamato-class battleship. If she was able to rebuild her aviation facility from hull up, she should have been able to carry more. Her hangar was as large as possible, because a lot of her vertical protection was part of her hull strucuture and couldn't be removed, and making other hangars (like Akagi) would have caused stability problems (overweight, top-heavy). As large as possible while not removing Yamato-class' superstructure. If she was to undergo a complete remodel (involviing entirely removing everything but the hull), the war would have been over before she could be anyway near complete.

And the result is that her aviation facility have to deal with all the limitations of being unable to re-plan her interior space, for example, her front elevator had to be put on the hole where a Yamato-class would install her #2 turret.