Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-25730832-20151013050733/@comment-26574811-20151015084451

SaltySalty wrote: She only carried 47 planes because the remain space contained 120 replacement aircraft for other carrier and land base.

So she looked like a supply ship than a carrier! I don't know where you heard all this, but that was not true. Shinano entered service at 19 November 1944, at which all other carriers, except Unryu, Amagi and Katsuragi, are sunk already.

Shinano, indeed, only carried 42+5 (reserves) aircrafts, this was due to the following reasons.

a. She was never completed. So that 47-plane air wing may or may not be her complete potential.

b. The ship builders were not granted time to remove all the Yamato-class battleship superstructures. This definitely limited her hangar space.

c. Well just how many pilots capable of carrier operation are there in 1944? Very few. So few that 47 may be the only ones left at the time. Remember Unryu-class were never given aircrafts, even though they were completed earlier.

There are some sources stated a 72+13 (hangar+flight deck) air wing plan though.