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The Yokosuka K5Y (九三式中間練習機, Kyūsanshikichūkanrenshūki, Type 93 Intermediate Training Aircraft, Allied reporting name: "Willow") was a two-seat unequal-span biplane trainer that served in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. Due to its bright orange paint scheme (applied to all Japanese military trainers for visibility), it earned the nickname "aka-tombo", or "red dragonfly", after a type of insect common throughout Japan.

K5Y
K5Y1
Role Intermediate trainer
Manufacturer Various, see text
First flight 1933
Introduction 1934
Primary user Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service
Produced 1934-1945
Number built 5,770

A K5Y of the Kamikaze Special Attack Corps 3rd Ryuko Squadron was credited with sinking the destroyer USS Callaghan on July 28, 1945, the last US warship lost to kamikaze attack during the war.[1]


Design and development


The aircraft was based on the Yokosuka Navy Type 91 Intermediate Trainer, but stability problems led to a redesign by Kawanishi in 1933. It entered service in 1934 as Navy Type 93 Intermediate Trainer K5Y1 with fixed tail-skid landing gear, and remained in use throughout the war. Floatplane types K5Y2 and K5Y3 were also produced. After the initial 60 examples by Kawanishi, production was continued by Watanabe (556 aircraft built), Mitsubishi (60), Hitachi (1,393), First Naval Air Technical Arsenal (75), Nakajima (24), Nippon (2,733), and Fuji (896), for a total of 5,770. These aircraft were the mainstay of Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service's flight training, and as intermediate trainers, they were capable of performing demanding aerobatic maneuvers. Two further land-based versions, the K5Y4 with a 358 kW (480 hp) Amakaze 21A engine and the K5Y5 with a 384 kW (515 hp) Amakaze 15, were projected but never built.[2]


Variants


K5Y2
K5Y2
K5Y1
K5Y2
K5Y3
K5Y4
K5Y5

Operators


 Japan

Postwar


Indonesian K5Y1 in Batavia, December 19, 1948
Indonesian K5Y1 in Batavia, December 19, 1948
A Yokosuka K5Y, named Chureng, at the Dirgantara Mandala Museum, Indonesia
A Yokosuka K5Y, named "Chureng," at the Dirgantara Mandala Museum, Indonesia
 Indonesia

Specifications (K5Y2 floatplane)


Data from Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War[3]

General characteristics

K5Y1: 8.05 m (26 ft)
K5Y1: 3.2 m (10 ft)
K5Y1: 1,000 kg (2,205 lb)
K5Y1: 1,500 kg (3,307 lb)
300 hp (224 kW) normal at sea level

Performance

K5Y1: 213 km/h (132 mph; 115 kn)
K5Y1: 1,018 km (633 mi; 550 nmi)
K5Y1: 5,700 m (18,701 ft) in
K5Y1: 3,000 m (9,843 ft) in 13 minutes 32 seconds

Armament


See also


Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era


Notes


  1. Miranda, Justo (2017). Axis Suicide Squads: German and Japanese Secret Projects of the Second World War. England: Fonthill Media. p. 158. ISBN 9781781555651.
  2. Francillon 1970, p. 446.
  3. Francillon 1970, p. 448.

Bibliography





На других языках


[de] Yokosuka K5Y

Die auch als Marinetyp 93 bezeichnete K5Y gehört zu den in den größten Stückzahlen gebauten japanischen Schulflugzeugen.
- [en] Yokosuka K5Y

[fr] Yokosuka K5Y

Le Yokosuka K5Y est un biplan d'entraînement à ailes inégales utilisé par la Marine impériale japonaise durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Les Alliés le désignaient sous le nom de code de Willow (« saule »). Sa vive peinture orange (appliquée sur tous les avions d'entraînement japonais pour raison de visibilité) lui a valu le surnom aka-tombo, ou « libellule rouge », un insecte commun au Japon.

[it] Yokosuka K5Y

Lo Yokosuka K5Y (九三式中間練習機? , addestratore intermedio tipo 93, nome in codice alleato Willow[2]) era un monomotore da addestramento biplano sviluppato dall'ufficio di progettazione giapponese Kūgishō, il Primo arsenale tecnico aeronavale di Yokosuka[3] nei primi anni trenta.

[ru] Yokosuka K5Y

Йокосука K5Y — двухместный тренировочный биплан. Спроектирован фирмой Йокосука.



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