Showa Aircraft Industry

Showa Aircraft Industry
Native name
昭和飛行機工業株式会社
Shōwa Hikōki Kōgyō Kabushiki-gaisha
Company typeKK
TYO: 7404
IndustryAircraft manufacturing
FoundedJune 5, 1937 (1937-06-05)
Websitewww.showa-aircraft.co.jp

Showa Aircraft Industry Co., Ltd. (昭和飛行機工業株式会社, Shōwa Hikōki Kōgyō Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese company. Its headquarters are at Akishima-shi, Tokyo Prefecture, a region of Tokyo Metropolis. It was established in 1937 as a manufacturer of military aircraft in Akishima-shi. In World War II it was one of two companies manufacturing the Showa/Nakajima L2D, a license-built Douglas DC-3 variant. It also manufactured other military aircraft.[1] Since the 1950s the company began to manufacture specialized freight trucks such as tank trucks and grain hopper trailers.[2]

Honeycomb panels manufactured by Showa Aircraft Industry has been used on a number of spacecraft including the Hayabusa asteroid sample return mission, the joint NASA-JAXA GPM Core Observatory satellite, and the H-II Transfer Vehicle.[3]

References

  1. ^ Homepage Shōwa Hikōki Kōgyō K. K. (in japanese & english), checked at 2014, 8. 2.
  2. ^ "沿革" (in Japanese). Showa Aircraft Industry. Retrieved 2025-10-16.
  3. ^ "複合材 関連" (in Japanese). Showa Aircraft Industry. Retrieved 2025-10-16.
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