what is it?
The Mitsubishi 1MF was a Japanese carrier fighter aircraft of the 1920s. Designed for the Mitsubishi Aircraft Company by the British aircraft designer Herbert Smith, the 1MF, also known as the Navy Type 10 Carrier Fighter, was operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy from 1923 to 1930.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 8.5 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 105 years ago, in 1921.
- Top speed is 1.6× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1921
- introduced
- 1923
- retired
- 1930
- status
- retired
- number built
- 138
- role
- carrier fighter
- makers
- Mitsubishi
- engines
- 1× Mitsubishi Hi
- crew
- 1
- length
- 6.9 m
- wingspan
- 8.5 m
- height
- 3.1 m
- max take-off weight
- 1,280 kg
- top speed
- 213 km/h
- range
- —
- ceiling
- 7,000 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q2629934, Wikipedia: Mitsubishi 1MF (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.