Nakajima Type 91 fighter

what is it?

The Nakajima Type 91 fighter was a Japanese fighter aircraft of the 1930s. It was a single-engine, single-seat parasol monoplane with a fixed, tailskid undercarriage.

🔎How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · high wing · 11 m wingspan

base stats

• speed 300 km/htop speed
• size 1,530 kgmax take-off weight
• built 450made in total

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 95 years ago, in 1931.
• 🏎️Top speed is 2.3× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
• 🚗Wingspan of 11 m: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
• 🏔️Can fly 1.0× higher than Mount Everest (8,849 m).

piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.

spec sheet

first flight

1931

introduced

1931

retired

1937

status

retired

number built

450

role

fighter

origin

Empire of Japan

makers

Nakajima

engines

1× Nakajima Jupiter VII

length

7.3 m

wingspan

11 m

height

2.8 m

max take-off weight

1,530 kg

top speed

300 km/h

range

—

ceiling

9,000 m

wings

high wing

Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.