List of aircraft of Japan during World War II
This is a list of aircraft used by the Imperial Japanese Army and Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.
Fighters
Attack Aircraft
Aircraft | Allied Code name |
First flown |
Number built |
Service |
---|---|---|---|---|
Aichi D3A Navy Type 99 Carrier Bomber | Val | 1940 | 1,486 | IJN |
Aichi B7A Ryusei Navy carrier torpedo bomber | Grace | 1942 | 114 | IJN |
Aichi M6A1 Seiran Navy Special Strike Submarine Bomber | n/a | 1943 | 28 | IJN |
Mitsubishi Ki-15 Army Type 97 Command Reconnaissance Plane | Babs | 1936 | 500~ | IJA |
Mitsubishi Ki-51 Army Type 99 Assault Plane | Sonia | 1939 | 2,385 | IJA |
Mitsubishi B5M Navy Type 97 No.2 Carrier Attack Bomber | Mabel | 1937 | 125 | IJN |
Nakajima B5N Navy Type 97 Carrier Attack Bomber | Kate | 1937 | 1,150~ | IJN |
Nakajima B6N Tenzan Navy Carrier Torpedo Bomber | Jill | 1941 | 1,268 | IJN |
Tachikawa Ki-36 Army Type 98 Direct Co-operation Aircraft | Ida | 1938 | 1,334 | IJA |
Yokosuka B4Y Navy Type 96 Carrier Attacker | Jean | 1935 | 205 | IJN |
Yokosuka D4Y Suisei Navy Carrier Dive bomber | Judy | 1942 | 2,038 | IJN |
Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka | n/a | 1944 | 852 | IJN |
Bombers
Aircraft | Allied Code name |
First flown |
Number built |
Service |
---|---|---|---|---|
Kawasaki Ki-48 Army Type 99 Twin-engined Light Bomber | Lily | 1940 | 1,997 | IJA |
Mitsubishi G3M Navy Type 96 Land-based Attack Aircraft | Nell | 1935 | 1,048 | IJN |
Mitsubishi G4M Navy Type 1 Land-based Attack Aircraft | Betty | 1941 | 2,435 | IJN |
Mitsubishi Ki-21 Army Type 97 Heavy Bomber | Sally | 1938 | 2,064 | IJA |
Mitsubishi Ki-30 Army Type 97 Light bomber | Ann | 1938 | 704 | IJA |
Mitsubishi Ki-67 Hiryu Navy Type 4 Heavy Bomber | Peggy | 1942 | 767 | IJA |
Nakajima Ki-49 Donryu Army Type 100 Heavy Bomber | Helen | 1941 | 819 | IJA |
Yokosuka P1Y1 Ginga Navy Land-Based Bomber | Frances | 1943 | 1,098 | IJN |
Reconnaissance Aircraft
Trainers
World War II Imperial Japanese Navy trainer aircraft were frequently modified from operational aircraft and differentiated by the suffix letter "K". Japaneses training aircraft were red-orange where combat aircraft would have been camouflaged.
Transports
Aircraft | Allied Code name |
First flown |
Number built |
Service |
---|---|---|---|---|
Kawasaki Ki-56 Army Type 1 Freight Transport & Tachikawa Navy Type LO | Thalia/Thelma | 1940 | 1,937 | IJA & IJN |
Mitsubishi Ki-57 Army Type 100 Transport | Topsy | 1940 | 406 | IJA |
Nakajima Ki-34 Army Type 97 Transport & Nakajima L1N Navy Type AT-2 Transport | Thora | 1936 | 351 | IJA & IJN |
Showa/Nakajima L2D Navy Type 0 Transport | Tabby | 1939 | 487 | IJN |
Mitsubishi Hinazuru-type Passenger Transport | n/a | 1936 | 11 | IJN |
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