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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries: Primary Role: Light Bomber: Maiden Flight: 28 February 1937: Contributor: C. Peter Chen. ww2dbase The Ki-30 Army Type 97 light bombers were designed in response to a Japanese Army requirement issued in May 1936. After reviewing the second prototype design which exceeded the Army expectations, an order was issued for ...

In March 1938, the Ki-30, which received the official designation "Light Army Bomber Type 97", was put into mass production. Until April 1940, 618 aircraft were produced at the Mitsubishi plant in Nagoya. Another 68 vehicles were built at the 1st Army Aviation Arsenal in the city of Tachikawa. In combat, the Ki-30 was first used in 1938 in ...

The Mitsubishi Ki-30 (九七式軽爆撃機, Kyunana-shiki keibakugekiki?) was a Japanese light bomber of World War II. It was a single-engine, mid-wing, cantilever monoplane of stressed-skin construction with a fixed tailwheel undercarriage and a long transparent cockpit canopy. The type had significance in being the first Japanese aircraft to be powered by a modern two-row radial engine ...