The Tachikawa Ki-55 was a Japanese advanced trainer .
4-745: The excellent characteristics of the Tachikawa Ki-36 made it potentially ideal as a trainer. This led to the development of the Ki-55 with a single machine gun. After successful testing of a prototype in September 1939, the type was put into production as the Tachikawa Army Type 99 Advanced Trainer . In all 1,389 Ki-55 were constructed before production ended in December 1943 with Tachikawa having built 1078 and Kawasaki 311. Both
8-606: A total of 1,334 Ki-36 had been built ( Tachikawa 862 and Kawasaki 472). The Ki-36 first saw action in China where it saw success. Later, in the Pacific , it proved excessively vulnerable to opposing fighters . It was thereafter redeployed to the safer theater of China. Towards the end of the war, the Ki-36 was employed as a kamikaze aircraft with a bomb of 500-kg (1,102-lb) fitted externally. Data from Japanese Aircraft of
12-688: The Ki-55 and the Ki-36 were given the Allied nickname 'Ida.' Francillon also mentions delivery to the Japanese satellite air force of Cochinchina , the southernmost third part of present Vietnam Data from Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War General characteristics Performance Armament Related development Related lists Tachikawa Ki-36 The Tachikawa Ki-36 (named Ida in Allied reporting code )
16-754: Was a Japanese army co-operation aircraft of World War II . It was a two-seat, low-wing monoplane with a single piston engine and fixed, tailwheel -type undercarriage . The prototype, fitted with a 450 hp (336 kW) Hitachi Army Type 98 Ha-13 engine, first flew on 20 April 1938. Having outperformed the Mitsubishi Ki-35 in comparative trials, the Ki-36 was designated the Army Type 98 Direct Co-operation Aircraft and ordered into production in November 1938. Production ended in January 1944 after
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