Kawanishi K8K

The Kawanishi K8K, long designation Navy Type 0 Primary Seaplane Trainer, was a Japanese floatplane trainer designed and built by the Kawanishi Aircraft Company for the Imperial Japanese Navy. It was a single-engine biplane with a fabric-covered steel-tube fuselage, a wooden wing and two floats, with the trainee and instructor seated in separate open cockpits, and it used the Gasuden Jimpu radial engine of the aircraft it was meant to replace. The first of three prototypes flew on 6 July 1938 and the type won the competition against the Watanabe K8W, but production stopped after twelve more aircraft because the Navy chose the more powerful Yokosuka K5Y for primary floatplane training.