Kamikaze (1937 aircraft)

This page is about a Mitsubishi Ki-15 aircraft. For the suicide attacks, made by Japanese pilots and submariners during World War II, see Kamikaze The Kamikaze was a Mitsubishi Ki-15 aircraft (registration J-BAAI) sponsored by the newspaper Asahi Shimbun, which became famous on April 9, 1937, when it arrived at Croydon Airport in London. It was the first Japanese-built aircraft to fly to Europe. The flight from Tokyo to London took 51 hours, 17 minutes and 23 seconds and was piloted by Masaaki Iinuma, with Kenji Tsukagoshi serving as navigator. The aircraft flew from Tokyo via Taihoku to French Indochina, then via India and the Middle East to Europe.
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