The Nakajima Aircraft Company /中島飛行機株式会社, Nakajima Hikōki Kabushiki Kaisha/ was a prominent Japanese aircraft manufacturer and aviation engine manufacturer throughout World War II. It continues as the car and aircraft manufacturer Subaru.
The Nakajima Aircraft company was Japan's first aircraft manufacturer, and was founded in 1918 by Chikuhei Nakajima, a naval engineer, and Seibei Kawanishi, a textile manufacturer, as Nihon Hikoki (Nippon Aircraft). In 1919, the two founders split and Nakajima bought out Nihon Aircraft's factory with tacit help from the Imperial Japanese Army. The company was renamed Nakajima Aircraft Company in 1919.
The company's manufacturing facilities were:
Tokyo plant
Musashino plant
Donryu plant
Ota plant, near Ōta Station.