Mitsubishi Ki-15

The Mitsubishi Ki-15, called Karigane (wild goose) in Japan, the Army Type 97 Command Reconnaissance Aircraft and Babs to the Allies, was a single-engine, low-wing monoplane with a fixed spatted undercarriage and a crew of two. It began as a fast civilian mail plane and was built to a 1935 army requirement for a high-speed reconnaissance aircraft. It served the Army and, as the C5M, the Navy, as a reconnaissance aircraft and light attack bomber in the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Pacific War. A civil Karigane made the first flight by a Japanese-built aircraft to Europe in April 1937, Tokyo to London in just over 51 hours. About 500 were built, and late in the war some were expended in kamikaze attacks.