Tachikawa Ki-36

Infobox Aircraft
name=Ki-36


caption=
type=Two-seat Army Co-operation Aircraft
manufacturer=Tachikawa
designer=
first flight= 20 April 1938
introduced=
retired=
status=
primary user=Imperial Japanese Army Air Force
more users=Royal Thai Air Force
produced=1938 - 1944
number built=1,334
unit cost=
variants with their own articles=Tachikawa Ki-55

The Tachikawa Ki-36 (codenamed Ida in allied code) was a Japanese army-cooperation aircraft of the Second World War.

The Ki-36 was a two-seat, low-wing monoplane with a single piston-engine and a fixed, tailwheel-type undercarriage.

Design and development

The prototype, fitted with a 450hp (336kW) Hitachi Ha13 engine, first flew on 20th April 1938. Having outperformed the Mitsubishi Ki-35 in comparative trials, the Ki-36 was designated the Army Type 98 Direct Co-operation Aircraft and ordered into production in November 1938.

Production ended in January 1944 after a total of 1,334 had been built.

Operational history

The Ki-36 first saw action in China where it saw success. Later, in the Pacific, it proved excessively vulnerable to opposing fighters. It was redeployed to the safer theatre of China.

Towards the end of the war, the Ki-36 was employed as a kamikaze with a bomb of 500-kg (1,102-lb) fitted internally.

Variants

;Ki-55:Trainer version.;Ki-72:An evolved version with a 600-hp (447-kW) Hitachi Ha-38 engine and retractable undercarriage, not built.

Operators

;PRC
*Chinese Communist Air Force operated 2 captured aircraft postwar as trainers until their retirement in early 1950s.;IDN
*Indonesian People's Security Force;JPN
*Imperial Japanese Army Air Force;THA
*Royal Thai Air Force

pecifications (Ki-36)

aircraft specifications

plane or copter?= plane
jet or prop?= prop

ref=The Concise Guide to Axis Aircraft of World War II Mondey 1996, p.246.]

crew=2
capacity=
length main= 8.00m
length alt= 25ft 3in
span main= 11.80m
span alt= 38ft 8.5in
height main= 3.64m
height alt= 11ft 11.25in
area main= 20m²
area alt= 215.29ft²
airfoil=
empty weight main= 1,247kg
empty weight alt= 2,749lb
loaded weight main= kg
loaded weight alt= lb
useful load main= kg
useful load alt= kg
max takeoff weight main= 1,660kg
max takeoff weight alt= 3,660lb
more general=

engine (jet)=
type of jet=
number of jets=
thrust main= kN
thrust alt= lbf
thrust original=
afterburning thrust main= kN
afterburning thrust alt= lbf
engine (prop)=Hitachi Ha-13a 9-cylinder radial
type of prop=2
number of props=1
power main= 380kW
power alt= 510hp
power original=

max speed main= 348km/h
max speed alt= knots, 216mph
cruise speed main= 235km/h
cruise speed alt= knots, 146mph
stall speed main= km/h
stall speed alt= knots, mph
never exceed speed main= km/h
never exceed speed alt= knots, mph
range main= 1,235km
range alt= nm, 767mi
ceiling main= 8,150m
ceiling alt= 26,740ft
climb rate main= m/s
climb rate alt= ft/min
loading main= kg/m²
loading alt= lb/ft²
thrust/weight=
power/mass main= W/kg
power/mass alt= hp/lb
more performance=

armament=
*one fixed, forward-firing 7.7mm (0.303in) machine-gun , one flexible 7.7mm (0.303in) machine-gun in rear cockpit, up to 150kg (331lb) external bombload.

avionics=

ee also

aircontent

related=*Tachikawa Ki-55

lists=
* List of military aircraft of Japan

References

Notes

Bibliography

* Francillon, René J. "Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War". London: Putnam Aeronautical, 1987. ISBN 0-85177-801-1.
* Mondey, David. "The Concise guide to Axis Aircraft of World War II". London: Chancellor, 1996. ISBN 1 85152 966 7.

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