The Dornier N was a bomber aircraft designed in Germany in the 1920s for production in Japan. Production of 28 aircraft started in Japan in 1927, as the Kawasaki Ka 87 (also known as the Type 87 Night Bomber). Designed and built as a landplane, its layout was strongly reminiscent of the Dornier flying boats of the same period; a parasol-wing, strut-braced monoplane with two engines, mounted in a push-pull nacelle above the wing. Some of the 28 examples built saw action in Manchuria in 1931.
Do N, Ka 87 | |
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Role | Bomber Type of aircraft |
Manufacturer | Kawasaki Kōkūki Kōgyō K.K. |
Designer | Richard Vogt of Dornier |
First flight | 19 February 1926 |
Primary user | Imperial Japanese Army Air Force |
Number built | 28 |
Data from Japanese Aircraft 1910–1941[1]
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Dornier and Zeppelin-Lindau aircraft | |
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Zeppelin-Lindau 1914-1919 | |
Dornier designations 1919-1933 | |
RLM designations 1933-1945 | |
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See also Claude Dornier and Dornier Museum Friedrichshafen |
Kawasaki aircraft | |
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World War II Allied reporting names |