Kawasaki KAL-2

The Kawasaki KAL-2 was a Japanese four or five seat single-engine aircraft designed in the mid-1950s for both military and civil markets, as the successor to Kawasaki's first postwar design, the KAL-1 cabin monoplane. It was a cantilever low-wing monoplane with two metal spars and stressed aluminium skin, hydraulic split flaps and a retractable tricycle undercarriage, and it shared layout and components with the KAT-1 primary trainer. The broad cabin held two seats in front with dual controls and a bench seat for two or three passengers behind. A 240 horsepower Lycoming GO-435 flat-six engine drove a two-blade variable-pitch propeller. Only two prototypes were completed, one serving with the Japan Air Self-Defense Force and the other with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force; serial 20001 is displayed at the Tokorozawa Aviation Museum.