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Mitsubishi Wins First Overseas Jet Order

 

October 2, 2009

 

A Mitsubishi Heavy Industries unit said on Friday that it had won an order for up to 100 regional jets from a US airline, breathing life into Japan's nascent aircraft industry.

 

Trans States Holdings, America's second-biggest independent regional carrier, placed an order for up to 100 jets with Mitsubishi Aircraft, becoming its second customer following All Nippon Airways (ANA) and its first client overseas.

 

The order provides a tailwind for Mitsubishi Heavy, which is chasing Canada's Bombardier and Brazil's Embraer.

 

The firm aims to sell 1,000 of its jets over the next 20 to 30 years, but has so far only won one order from ANA for up to 25 of its 70- to 90- seat planes, which analysts have estimated to be priced at JPY3 billion yen to JPY4 billion (USD$33 million - USD$45 million) each.

 

Trans States Holdings comprises Trans States Airlines, which operates as US Airways Express, and GoJet Airlines, which operates as United Express.

 

Trans State Airlines has a 48-plane fleet of 50-seat Embraer ERJ145 jets. GoJet's 15-plane fleet consists of 66-seat Bombardier CRJ700 planes. Together, they operate 350 flights a day between 50 cities.

 

Mitsubishi Heavy said last month that it would delay delivery of its first passenger jet by three months to the first quarter of calendar 2014 as it switches to aluminium wings instead of carbon fibre for better fuel efficiency.

 

(Reuters)

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Mitsubishi jet makes maiden overseas flight

 

TOKYO -- Mitsubishi Aircraft's Japan-built passenger jet made its maiden overseas flight en route to the U.S. for testing.
The first Mitsubishi Regional Jet, which had left Nagoya Airport in Aichi Prefecture, on Monday, took off from New Chitose Airport in Hokkaido at 9:20 a.m. on Tuesday and arrived at an airport in Russia's Kamchatka after noon.
The jet is scheduled to fly over Russia and the U.S. state of Alaska, depending on weather and other conditions. It is expected to arrive at the city of Moses Lake in the U.S. state of Washington on Thursday, Japan time, at the earliest.

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MRJ regional jet delayed until mid-2020

 

January 23, 2017, ©. Leeham Co: Mitsubishi announced a further two years delay of the MRJ regional jet project in a press conference in Tokyo today.
The 90-seater variant of the aircraft will be delivered to the first customer, All Nippon Airways (ANA), mid-2020.
The previous scheduled Entry Into Service (EIS) of mid 2018, was announced December 2015. In total, the MRJ program has announced five delays, totaling seven years.
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2 years? I hope they don't shelf the project after coming a long way.

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They are being really careful - I believe that they don't want a B787/A320neo (PW) type of entry into service.

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I hope they don't shelf the project after coming a long way.

I hope so too, my 1:400 model will become obsolete otherwise :D

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New Certification Demands Force MRJ Program Delay

 

BEIJING—New certification requirements have forced Mitsubishi Aircraft to revise the design of the MRJ, the company said as it confirmed that the target for first delivery of the regional jet has slipped two years to mid-2020.
An engineering team working on future technology will prepare a strategy for a successor commercial-aircraft program, Mitsubishi Aircraft and majority owner Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) said in a joint statement.
For the MRJ, “certain systems and electrical configurations” need to be changed, they said. “These design changes will not affect aircraft performance, fuel consumption, or functionality of systems.” Flight testing will proceed with prototypes using the current configuration to acquire performance data for airworthiness certification. Four of five planned MRJ prototypes are flying.
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MRJ certification requires extra hours, more jets

 

Mitsubishi Aircraft is reviewing the MRJ regional jet's flight test plans, and estimates that the programme will now require around 500 extra flight hours and up to two additional aircraft to achieve certification.
Executive chief engineer Nobuo Kishi says this is due to necessary design changes, and says that the four flight test prototypes have so far logged 660 flight hours, both in Japan and at its Moses Lake flight test centre in the US. Its fifth flight test aircraft is still in final assembly in Nagoya.
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