Manchuria Airplane Manufacturing Company

The Manchuria Airplane Manufacturing Company, called Manshu or Mansyuu for short, was an aircraft company in Manchukuo that produced mostly military aircraft and aircraft components in the 1930s and 1940s. It was set up in late 1938 under Japanese government supervision as a subsidiary of the Nakajima Aircraft Company of Japan, with its main plant in Harbin. From 1941 to 1945 it built 2,196 airframes, eighth among Japanese airframe makers, 798 of them combat aircraft, and 2,168 aircraft engines, sixth among Japanese engine makers. It also repaired aircraft for the Manchukuo Air Force and for Imperial Japanese Army Air Force units stationed there. Most of its output was licensed production of Kawasaki, Mitsubishi, Nakajima and Tachikawa designs, including 1,379 Nakajima Ki-27 fighters, and it developed a few designs of its own, of which only the Ki-79 advanced trainer reached mass production.