The Mitsubishi SpaceJet news thread

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Bad news for Mitsubishi: the company just announced that Trans States has cancelled its order for 50 M90 Spacejets, and options for 50 more. An order that was unlikely to ever materialise given the scope clause restrictions in the U.S. that limit the size of the aeroplane regional carriers can fly, says US aviation expert Jon Ostrower.

Future discussions will be focused on the scope compliant M100.

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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries is rethinking the timetable for Japan’s first new commercial aircraft in 50 years and cannot commit to its target of making initial deliveries by mid-2020.

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Mitsubishi Aircraft says the SpaceJet programme is making progress toward the launch of the aircraft. The company is closing in on type certification for the M90, but it is not expected by the mid-2020 target.

The planemaker believes it can rake in another 400 orders in early 2020 — likely to be MOUs.

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Mitsubishi Aircraft plans to push back the first delivery of its SpaceJet to 2021 or later, in its sixth schedule delay.

Mitsubishi SpaceJet looks like Berlin Brandenburg Airport!

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Mitsubishi Aircraft has unannounced commitments from customers to buy hundreds (!) of its SpaceJet M100 jets, but its first focus is on certifying its larger introductory model, the M90.

Mitsubishi Aircraft further says the M200 will carry about 100 passengers and arrive about two years after first delivery of the 65-88-seat M100, now scheduled for 2024.

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Another victim of the COVID-19 crisis: Mitsubishi “consolidates all activities back to Japan” and will close its U.S. operations for the troubled SpaceJet programme.

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Another victim of the COVID-19 crisis: Mitsubishi “consolidates all activities back to Japan” and will close its U.S. operations for the troubled SpaceJet programme.

Mitsubishi Aircraft will more than halve its 2,000 workforce as part of restructuring, and close its US headquarters, a development centre in Canada and sales offices in the US and Europe. It will also reorganize the development team with Chief Development Officer Alex Bellamy stepping down.

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Mitsubishi Aircraft will focus the fiscal year on certifying its SpaceJet M90, and announced executive changes as it seeks to weather challenges brought by the pandemic.

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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries denies reports that it will stop the development of the SpaceJet programme, as it is in the process of reviewing the programme schedule. An announcement will be made very soon.

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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries denies reports that it will stop the development of the SpaceJet programme, as it is in the process of reviewing the programme schedule. An announcement will be made very soon.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to freeze development of its SpaceJet regional aircraft to focus on other businesses that will bolster profits. The decision will allow it to halve jobs in its commercial aviation business, helping generate cost savings of US$1.15 billion.

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Mitsubishi Aircraft plans to slash 95% of staff as work to develop the SpaceJet grinds to a halt.

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US lessor Aerolease Aviation has officially cancelled with Mitsubishi its SpaceJet order for 10 firm, 10 options signed in 2016. If development resumes, the lessor is open to re-contracting the order.

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Sounds like the end for this (once) ambitious project.

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Sounds like the end for this (once) ambitious project.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to reassess a possible SpaceJet programme restart by March 2022, while also continuing with type certification documentation.

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Not really about the SpaceJet, which might never be built commercially, but it's about its manufacturer: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries is considering restarting production of the discontinued CRJ, beginning with CRJ550 configuration of the CRJ700 for Skywest.

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Mitsubishi Aircraft reaffirms its October 2020 decision to pause the development of the MRJ-200 for the next three years.

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Mitsubishi Aircraft has closed its last North American flight test base, at Moses Lake in late March 2022. One of the four SpaceJet aircraft, MSN 10003, was dismantled, while the other three are likely to return to Japan.

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Mitsubishi has eventually decided to terminate the Spacejet program:

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Transp ... r-business

[Passenger]

msn 001 is scrapped:
https://twitter.com/jetcitystar/status/ ... 6298891264

[saratoga]

Its a pitty because it looked very promising.