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Mitsubishi’s MRJ on Track To Fly This Year

Mitsubishi Aircraft chairman and CEO Hideo Egawa says that assembling the team to develop the MRJ regional jet is the company’s biggest challenge yet. (Photo: Alan Klein)

By Curt Epstein • Business Aviation Services Editor

May 27, 2013

Japan’s first indigenous commercial passenger jet, the MRJ, is on track to make its first flight this year, according to Hideo Egawa, chairman and CEO of Mitsubishi Aircraft. While Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has long contributed components and assemblies in support of other manufacturer’s projects, the next-generation MRJ represents its first designed and produced passenger jet. Indeed, Egawa described the task of integrating all the efforts to produce the regional jet as one of the biggest challenges Mitsubishi Aircraft has faced since its launch in 2008.

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