| Type |
3-seat bomber |
| Engine |
2 Siemens Jupiter VI |
| Dimensions |
Length 11,40 m, height 4,60 m , span 20,05 m , wing area 54,20 m2 , |
| Weights |
Empty 2600 kg, loaded , take off weight 4500 kg |
| Performance |
Max.. speed 224 km/h , cruising speed 195 km/h, range 850 km, endurance , service ceiling 7000 m , climb |
| Armament |
:Three or four 7.7 mm machine guns, up to 500 kg of bombs |
| Type |
Werk.Nr |
Registration |
History |
|
3200 |
S-AABL, D-AMIX, D-1252 |
, 1926, S26 prototype, AB Flygindustri, S-AABL 1927 to 1928, modified to K37. D-AMIX, 1934 to 1936 |
|
3201 |
S-AABP |
With Jupiter VII engine. Sold to Mitsubishi Feb. 31, named 'Aikoku I', used in Manchurian War, prototype of Ki 1 and Ki 2 |
Like most of the first military aircraft of the Junkers Flugzeugwerke company The A.G. K.37 light reconnaissance bomber was a conversion of a civilian aircraft. In 1927, an experienced a copy of the S.36 transport aircraft was delivered to Sweden to the A.B. Flygindustri plant in Limhamn. There he received registration number S-AABL and became the prototype of the K.37 military aircraft. The military version of the aircraft differed from the civilian one in the presence of defensive firing points (nose, rear and ventral) and suspension units of light bombs under the wings. The K.37 could be equipped with three or four 7.7-mm machine gun and up to 500 kilograms of light bombs.
The first copy of the aircraft was followed by the second, which received registration number S-AABP. For the first time to the general public the aircraft was presented in 1929 at the London Air Show. Results comparative flights were more than encouraging - the presence of two engines Siemens Jupiter VI (licensed version French Gnome-Rhone engine) allowed aircraft to rise to an altitude inaccessible to single-engine fighters of Togo time.
But by the time all this work was completed, there was an expected jump in flight characteristics of fighters (in 1930, the high-altitude Bristol Bulldog), and the superiority of the K 37 was leveled. In as a result, Junkers was unable to find buyers for the new car.
However, a delegation of the Japanese company "Mitsubishi" visited Sweden in 1931 acquired a single prototype of the K.37 (indexed "Aikoku 1" in Japan) and the right to produce it. Later "Mitsubishi" based on K 37 technologies created the Ki-1 heavy bomber and the Ki-2 light bomber. Both aircraft were produced in fairly large quantities and took part in combat operations in Manchuria as part of the Japanese Army Air Force.
118 license produced Ki1 at Mitsubishi, Japan
187 license produced Ki2 at Mitsubishi, Japan
