Mitsubishi 2MR

The Mitsubishi 2MR was a carrier-based reconnaissance biplane of the 1920s, known to the Imperial Japanese Navy as the Navy Type 10 Carrier Reconnaissance Aircraft and by the short designation C1M. Herbert Smith, the British designer formerly of Sopwith, drew it for Mitsubishi after the Navy ordered a fighter, a reconnaissance aircraft and a torpedo bomber in 1921. It first flew on 12 January 1922 and resembled the 1MF fighter scaled up for a two-man crew. Production ran until 1930 and reached 159 aircraft, and later versions served as intermediate trainers and, converted for civil use, as newspaper communications aircraft until 1938.