Tachikawa Ki-54

History

Operators

• Imperial Japanese Army Air Force used them for training as per their design.
• Manchukuo Air Force Three were provided by Japan as VIP transports.

• Nanjing air force
• Republic of China Air Force Nationalist Chinese.
• People's Liberation Army Air Force Communist Chinese : Four captured Ki-54s were used, including in 1951 to train the first class of female pilots in China. They were retired in 1952.
• Armée de l'Air At least seven Ki-54 were recovered by the French in French Indochina between 1945 and 1947, after the Japanese surrender.
• One aircraft operated briefly by No. 273 Squadron RAF during September and October 1945 in French Indochina.

  Surviving aircraft

• A Ki-54 fuselage is in Australia in storage at the Australian War Museum Annex. It was previously part of a playground at the RAAF Fairbairn base kindergarten.
• Another Ki-54 fuselage is stored in China at the Chinese Aviation Museum.
• An unrestored Ki-54 is on display at the Misawa Aviation & Science Museum, Japan, it was found at the bottom of Lake Towada in Aomori Prefecture on 13 August 2010. It was recovered on 5 September 2012 and has been restored for display.

  Variants

• Ki-54a - unarmed pilot trainer
• Ki-54b - armed crew trainer
• Ki-54c - eight-passenger light transport, communications aircraft. Civil designation Y-59.
• Ki-54d - maritime reconnaissance/ASW, carried 8x 60-kg depth charges
• Ki-110 - one prototype Ki-54c of all-wood construction, destroyed in US bombing attack
• Ki-111 - projected fuel tanker
• Ki-114 - projected fuel tanker of all-wood construction

  Specifications (Ki-54c light transport)