Aircraft
Mitsubishi Details Delays to MRJ
Japan’s new regional jet has been set back a fourth time with some major reworking and a six-month longer flight test period planned.

Mitsubishi Aircraft (MITAC) has modified the first Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ) 90 since its initial three flights last November and was due to have re-flown the machine ahead of this week’s airshow. It’s Japan’s first domestically developed passenger airliner since the NAMC YS-11 regional turboprop more than 50 years ago. Taxying tests with the updated aircraft scheduled for “early February” were planned to follow functional tests performed during January.