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The Kawasaki KDC-2 was a 1920s Japanese light civil transport which Kawasaki developed from its Kawasaki Army Type 88 Reconnaissance Aircraft. Two were built and flown in 1928 and flew both regular and irregular services; the last retired in 1935.
The Aichi AB-1 was a result of a 1926 government call for a small, Japanese-built, civil transport biplane able to operate from land or water. It won the contest in both roles but did not reach production as airlines moved from biplanes to monoplanes. Nonetheless, it remained in commercial use well into the 1930s.
The Nakajima P-1 was a 1930s Japanese single engine, single seat biplane intended for night mail flights, derived from the Nakajima E4N3 Naval reconnaissance seaplane. Nine were built.
The Junkers T 23 was a two-seat, single-engined experimental training aircraft, built in Germany in the early 1920s. It could be configured either as a parasol winged monoplane or as a biplane to compare handling characteristics. 4 were constructed.
The Pander P-1 and P-2 were close to-identical single engine Dutch sports aircraft with tandem seats and a parasol wing, first flying in 1929. Only two were built.
The Hanriot HD.15 was a French two seat fighter aircraft fitted with a supercharger for good high altitude performance, built in the 1920s. Three were ordered by Japan but lost at sea during delivery.
The Albatros L.71 was a two-seat, single pusher engined biplane built in Germany in the 1920s.
The Gabriel P 5 was the first nationally developed aircraft to fly in Poland after it became independent in 1918. It was an amateur-built, low-powered, single seat parasol wing machine. Only one was completed.
The Tachikawa KKY, full name Tachikawa Army Small and Light Ambulance Aircraft was designed to rescue injured or sick patients from places without established airfields. Following two earlier prototypes, 21 production examples were built between 1936 and 1940 and served in the Second Sino-Japanese War.
The Kawanishi K-6 was a passenger-carrying biplane floatplane, built in Japan in the 1920s. The sole example took part in an around Japan flight then flew as a transport with Japan Aviation.
The sole Kawanishi K-2 was the first specialized Japanese racing aircraft. The advanced, Junkers-influenced, single seat monoplane's first flight was in the late summer of 1921. It had a promisingly high maximum speed but a career limited by numerous minor accidents produced no victories or records.
The Kawanishi K-3 was a Japanese, fast, multi-purpose civil transport aircraft from the early 1920s. Despite its good performance it was eclipsed by the release of Army surplus machines and only one was built.
The Itoh Emi 1 Aeroplane was Japan's second successful civil aircraft and the first design of Orojiro Itoh.
The Itoh Emi 2 was a revised and cleaned up development of his first aircraft, the Itoh Emi 1.
The Itoh Emi 3 was the first Japanese civil passenger carrying seaplane, flown in 1917 and used for commercial demonstrations and passenger flights.
The Itoh Tsurubane No.1 was a single seat aviation demonstrator and trainer biplane first flown in Japan in 1918.
The Itoh Emi 9 was a two-seat Japanese training biplane built in 1918.
The Itoh Emi 14 was a Japanese biplane designed in 1920 for a long distance competitive flight from Tokyo to Osaka and back, which it won. It was also successful at a contest later that summer, before suffering terminal structural failure during aerobatics a few weeks later.
The Itoh Emi 16 Fuji-go (Fuji), built in 1920, was intended as a cheap and simple general purpose civil biplane but gained publicity with exhibition flights and successful speed and altitude contests against higher-powered fighter aircraft.
The Itoh Emi 29 Taihoku-go was a 1920s Japanese civil transport with its two passengers in a enclosed cabin. It was the first of this "limousine" type to be built in Japan; the only example flew the Osaka-Tokyo route for a while.