Back Jokosuka K5Y Czech Yokosuka K5Y German Yokosuka K5Y Spanish یوکوسوکا کی-۵وای Persian Yokosuka K5Y French Yokosuka K5Y ID Yokosuka K5Y Italian 九三式中間練習機 Japanese Yokosuka K5Y Polish Yokosuka K5Y Russian
| K5Y | |
|---|---|
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| 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 |
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.
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]
- ^ Miranda, Justo (2017). Axis Suicide Squads: German and Japanese Secret Projects of the Second World War. England: Fonthill Media. p. 158. ISBN 9781781555651.