what is it?
The Aichi E10A was a Japanese night reconnaissance flying boat of the 1930s. A single-engined biplane, 15 were built for the Imperial Japanese Navy as the Type 96 Night Reconnaissance Seaplane, serving from 1936 but were retired in 1941 before the Attack on Pearl Harbor.
How to recognise it: piston engines · 15.5 m wingspan
base stats
Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).
fun facts
- First flew 92 years ago, in 1934.
- Top speed is 1.6× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 15.5 m: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
- Range of 1,852 km: 10× Amsterdam to Brussels.
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1934
- introduced
- 1936
- retired
- 1941
- status
- retired
- number built
- 15
- role
- night reconnaissance flying boat
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- makers
- Aichi
- engines
- Aichi Type 91
- crew
- 3
- length
- 11.2 m
- wingspan
- 15.5 m
- height
- 4.5 m
- max take-off weight
- 3,300 kg
- top speed
- 206 km/h
- cruise speed
- 106 km/h
- range
- 1,852 km
- ceiling
- 4,120 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q94654, Wikipedia: Aichi E10A (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.