Talk:Type 98 Reconnaissance Seaplane (Night Recon)/@comment-26850872-20150811154713/@comment-26850872-20151024181331

^ I don't know about that. Though I rarely deploy this plane nowadays, there are a few instances where I gave it to Sendai and it got shot down a few times (noticed it due to bauxite consumption upon re-arming my occassional 5-3 fleet), but I still have it at double chevron when I went to equip this again.

Though it could be that based on this note from the Aircraft Proficiency page:
 * When a slot of planes is completely shot down, it still receive ranks for their performance prior to the event, and the ranks will be added after the rank reset. So in some cases, a wiped-out squadron can return to base with 1 or 2 stripes left, given that the squadron performed well before being wiped out.

I might have overlooked something though, but I guess from now on it's better to equip this plane to someone with a higher plane slot capacity such as a CA/V.