Reading Time: 2 minutes Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. (MITAC)’s announced it will redesign its MRJ70 and launch the M100 SpaceJet instead, to fit into the changing market environment. Initially, Mitsubishi Aircraft set the beginning for its MRJ90 90-seat aircraft. This program continues towards a 2020 entry-into-service and eventually will get similar treatment, with the new plane being designated the MRJ200. […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Bombardier and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries admitted being in talks over the Bombardier’s Canadair Regional Jet (CRJ) program. No agreement has been reached yet. “Before any agreement can be reached further review and analysis by Bombardier management and approval by Bombardier’s Board of Directors are required, and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. must complete its due diligence […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation and Aerolease Aviation, LLC, an aircraft leasing company based in the United States, announced that they have signed a definitive agreement for the purchase of ten firm MRJ90 aircraft with an option to an additional ten MRJ90 aircraft. Mitsubishi Aircraft and Aerolease Aviation signed an LOI (Letter of Intent) at the Singapore […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Iranian deputy road minister has announced that a Japanese delegation will arrive in Iran in December to discuss selling aircraft to Iranian airlines. Deputy Minister for International Affairs at the Ministry of Road and Urban Development Asghar Fakhrieh Kashan made the remarks noting “given that Iran Aseman Airlines performs domestic and provincial flights across the […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Pemco World Air Services (PEMCO) is proud to announce it has been named a preferred MRO service provider of the MRJ aircraft by Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation. As an alternative solution for airlines performing airframe MRO in-house or through an outsourced third party, Mitsubishi Aircraft and PEMCO will offer airframe related MRO services to North American […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. is seeking permission from Japanese and US regulators to move the start of MRJ flight testing in the US from the end of this year to this summer. The MRJ90 achieved first flight in Japan in November 2015, but in December Mitsubishi Aircraft announced a delay in the planned first delivery of […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) today announced that the companies will change the first delivery schedule of the MRJ (Mitsubishi Regional Jet), their next-generation regional jet, from the second quarter of 2017 to approximately one year later. The first flight and the subsequent flight tests have confirmed the basic characteristics to […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Japan’s first commercial jetliner, the Mitsubishi Regional Jet, on Wednesday completed its maiden test flight after repeated delays. It is an important milestone for an ambitious effort by Japan to develop its aerospace industry.
Reading Time: < 1 minute Mitsubishi has successfully completed the first flight of the Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ), the first commercial plane to be developed in Japan since the 1960s. The MRJ took off from Nagoya Airport on November and completed a 1.5 hour flight. “Operational performance of the MRJ was far better than expected. We had a significantly comfortable […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes It was at the 47th Paris Airshow that Mitsubishi unveiled its plans for the first Japanese plane to be built since the NAMC YS-11 in the 1960s, an aircraft that never actually became profitable. The development has been subject to a number of delays, including those in the procurement of the Pratt & Whitney engines. […]