The MS was ordered into production, designated Navy Type 95 Reconnaissance Seaplane Model 1 in October 1935 [REF].
One E8N was purchased in early 1941 by the German Naval Attache to Japan, Vice-Admiral Wenneker, and dispatched on board KM MUNSTERLAND to rendezvous with the German auxiliary cruiser Orion at Maug Island in the Marianas.