Kawasaki Ka 87

Do N, Ka 87
Role	Bomber
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

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.

Specifications

Data from Japanese Aircraft 1910–1941^[1]

General characteristics

Crew: six (pilot, co-pilot, bombardier, navigator, radio operator and engineer)
Length: 18.0 m (59 ft 1 in)
Wingspan: 26.80 m (87 ft 11 in)
Height: 5.85 m (19 ft 2 in)
Wing area: 121 m² (1,300 sq ft)
Empty weight: 4,400 kg (9,700 lb)
Gross weight: 7,700 kg (16,976 lb)
Powerplant: 2 × Kawasaki BMW VI water-cooled V-12 engines, 450 kW (600 hp) each

Performance

Maximum speed: 181.1 km/h (112.5 mph, 97.8 kn) at sea level
Cruise speed: 171 km/h (106 mph, 92 kn)
Service ceiling: 5,000 m (16,000 ft)
Time to altitude: 44 minutes to 3,000 ft (910 m)

Armament

Guns: 5× 7.7 mm machine guns (twin mounts in nose and dorsal positions, single gun in ventral position)
Bombs: 1000 kg (2200 lb)

References

^ Mikesh and Abe 1990, pp. 144–145.

Bibliography

Mikesh, Robert C.; Abe, Shorzoe (1990). Japanese Aircraft 1910–1941. London: Putnam. ISBN 0-85177-840-2.
Passingham, Malcolm (February 1999). "Les bombardiers de l'Armée japonaise (1920–1935)" [Japanese Army Bombers (1920–1935)]. Avions: Toute l'aéronautique et son histoire (in French) (71): 32–38. ISSN 1243-8650.
Taylor, Michael J. H. (1989). Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation. London: Studio Editions. p. 328.
Zuerl, Walter (1941). Deutsche Flugzeug Konstrukteure. München, Germany: Curt Pechstein Verlag.

External links

[mikesh_p144-5-1] Mikesh and Abe 1990, pp. 144–145.

[1]

v t e Dornier and Zeppelin-Lindau aircraft
Zeppelin-Lindau 1914-1919	Rs.I Rs.II Rs.III Rs.IV CL.I CL.II CS.I D.I Gs.I Gs.II V 1
Dornier designations 1919-1933	Do A Do B Do C Do D Do E Do F Do G (project) Do H Do J Do K Do L Do N Do O Do P Do Q Do R Do S Do T Do U Do V Do X Do Y Delphin Falke Komet Libelle Merkur Spatz Wal
RLM designations 1933-1945	Do 10 Do 11 Do 12 Do 13 Do 14 Do 15 Do 16 Do 17 (Operational history) Do 18 Do 19 Do 20 Do 22 Do 23 Do 24 Do 25 Do 26 Do 29 Do 212 Do 214 Do 215 Do 216 Do 217 Do 317 Do 318 Do 335 Do 417 Do 435 Do 635 P.59 P.85 P.174 P.184 P.192 P.231 P.232 P.238 P.247 P.252 P.254 P.256 P.273 P.1075
Dornier designations post-1945	Do 24 Do 25 Do 27 Do 28 Do 29 Do 31 Do 32 Do 32K Do 34 128 Do 131 Do 132 228 Do 231 328 328JET 428 528 728JET 928JET Aerodyne Alpha Jet Projekt 621 Seastar S-Ray 007
See also Claude Dornier and Dornier Museum Friedrichshafen

v t e Kawasaki aircraft
Company designations	KAL-1 KAL-2 KAT-1 KAQ-1 KDA-2 KDA-3 KDA-5 KDC-2 KDC-5 KH-4 YPX
Imperial Japanese Army designations	Type 87 Type 88 Type 92 Ki-3 Ki-5 Ki-10 Ki-22 Ki-28 Ki-32 Ki-38 Ki-45 Ki-48 Ki-56 Ki-60 Ki-61 Ki-64 Ki-66 Ki-78 Ki-81 Ki-85 Ki-88 Ki-89 Ki-91 Ki-96 Ki-100 Ki-102 Ki-108 Ki-119 Ki-148 Ki-174
Japanese Self-Defense Force designations	C-1 C-2 OH-1 P-1 P-2J T-4
Joint ventures	BK 117 BK 117-C2
Licensed production	Bell 47 Hughes 500 Hughes 369 Boeing-Vertol V-107 Boeing-Vertol CH-47 Lockheed T-33 Lockheed P-2 Lockheed P-3C
World War II Allied reporting names	Bob Lily Mary Nick Perry Randy Rob Thalia Tony