what is it?
The Mitsubishi K3M (九〇式機上作業練習機, Kyūrei-shiki kijō sagyō renshūki) was a trainer built by Mitsubishi which was used by the Imperial Japanese Navy in an extremely wide variety of roles, including light transport, liaison aircraft, utility aircraft, and occasionally light bomber. Its Allied reporting name was Pine.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · shoulder wing · 15.8 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 96 years ago, in 1930.
- Top speed is 1.8× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 15.8 m: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1930-05
- introduced
- 1931
- number built
- 624
- role
- training aircraft
- origin
- Empire of Japan
- makers
- Mitsubishi
- engines
- 1× Nakajima Kotobuki-2 / Kotobuki
- crew
- 4
- length
- 9.5 m
- wingspan
- 15.8 m
- height
- 3.8 m
- max take-off weight
- 2,200 kg
- top speed
- 230 km/h
- range
- 790 km
- ceiling
- 6,389 m
- wings
- shoulder wing
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1996550, Wikipedia: Mitsubishi K3M (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.