Tokyo Gasu Denki Kogyo KK (Tokyo Gas and Electric Co. Ltd) built small numbers of KR-1 biplanes (March 1934) based on DH.83 Fox Moth, followed by about 30 KR-2 Chidori…
Tokyo Koku KK built wooden Ki-107 Army trainer (October 1943), only about 30 completed when bombing halted work 1944.
On 19 July 2006, electrical goods manufacturer Panasonic announced that, three days earlier, an aircraft had made the world’s first manned flight powered entirely by dry cell batteries. The flight,…
Toyo Koku KK (Toyo Aircraft Manufacturing Co. Ltd) formed 10 June 1952, a month before aircraft manufacture again permitted, with board made up of ministers, admirals and former Kawasaki MD…
K.K. Watanabe Tekkosho (Watanabe Ironworks Co. Ltd) built aircraft parts from 1926 and complete aircraft, designed by others, from 1931. Major contribution to A5M, E14Y, K9W/Ki-86 and K10W. Own designs…
GEN YANAGISAWA ENGINEERING SYSTEM CO LTD Mr Yanagisawa, whose nickname is 'Gen', developed a small, but comparatively high-powered, horizontally opposed two-cylinder engine while working for the Zenoa company. By 1985,…
This city gave popular name to Imperial Navy’s Dai-Ichi Kaigun Koku Gijitsusho (1st Technical Air Arsenal), whose designs were usually assigned to established manufacturers for series production, though some were…
Zaidan Hozin Minkan Yusooki Kaihatsu Kyokai (civil transport development corp.) formed 1973 to manage YX (not built); may manage SST participation.
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