Nakajima C2N

The Nakajima C2N was the Imperial Japanese Navy version of the Fokker Super Universal, a high wing monoplane with an uncowled radial engine that Nakajima built in Japan under licence from September 1930. In 1933 the Navy accepted two variants for reconnaissance: the C2N1 land based aircraft, which kept the wheels of the normal Super Universal, and the C2N2 seaplane, which was given floats. The naval aircraft used Nakajima Kotobuki 1 or 2 radial engines of 460 hp in place of the Nakajima Jupiters of the army and civil aircraft, and had a longer cabin with space for aerial photographs and survey equipment. It was reliable but short ranged, so most of its service was within Japan, where it was also used for transport and liaison. Sources differ on numbers built: one counts twenty C2N1 and thirty C2N2, another says twenty aircraft.