Kawanishi K6K

The Kawanishi K6K was a two-seat, twin-float biplane trainer built by the Kawanishi Aircraft Company in the late 1930s as a prototype for the Imperial Japanese Navy. It was conceived to meet a Navy requirement for an intermediate-level training seaplane and used a welded steel-tube fuselage covered in fabric, a fabric-covered steel wing and light alloy monocoque floats. Power came from a single Nakajima Kotobuki 9-cylinder air-cooled radial engine. Its first flight took place on 30 April 1938, but the flight tests revealed poor alighting characteristics, so the type was not ordered into production and only two prototypes were completed.