August 3, 2015, © Leeham Co.: Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. today opened its Seattle Engineering Center jointly with local company AeroTEC in advance of the first flight of the MRJ90 in September or October. During the second quarter of next… Read More
Posted on August 3, 2015 by Scott Hamilton
Aug. 3, 2015, © Leeham Co. Mitsubishi is just a few months away from beginning flight testing on the first commercial airplane designed and built in Japan since the NAMC YS-11 in the 1960s. The 60 passenger turbo prop had… Read More
Posted on August 3, 2015 by Scott Hamilton
Boeing, Bombardier, E-Jet, Embraer, Mitsubishi, Pontifications
747, 747-8, 787, All Nippon Airways, Boeing, Bombardier, CRJ, CRJ-1000, CRJ-900, E-Jet, E-Jet 175, E-Jet 175 E2, E-Jet E2, Embraer, ExIm Bank, GE, Japan Air Lines, Jim McNerney, Mitsubishi, MRJ, MRJ-70, MRJ-90, SkyWest Airlines, Trans States Airlines
By Bjorn Fehrm Subscription required. Introduction 03 Aug 2015, © Leeham Co.: Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation, the company behind Japan’s new regional aircraft, is inaugurating an engineering center in Seattle today and presenting their testing facility at Moses Lake (WA) Grant… Read More
Posted on August 3, 2015 by Bjorn Fehrm
July 30, 2015: Embraer reset entry into service for its KC-390 tanker/transport will be in 2018 vs 2017 when it reported its 2Q2015 earnings today. The press release is here. The KC-390 is Embraer’s largest aircraft, with a… Read More
Posted on July 30, 2015 by Scott Hamilton
Subscription required. Introduction July 9, 2015, © Leeham Co. At the half way point of 2015, there are a number of signs emerging that require some interpretation. Some are signs of caution. Others are Go Slow. Summary China’s… Read More
Subscription Required Introduction Embraer CEO Paulo Cesar Silva. Photo: AINOnline via Google Images. June 22, 2015, Paris Air Show, © Leeham Co. Embraer has emerged as the#3 commercial aircraft producer over the years, behind Airbus and Boeing and… Read More
Posted on June 22, 2015 by Scott Hamilton
June 17, 2015, Paris Air Show, c. Leeham Co. With focus, as always, on Airbus and Boeing, and an airplane that neither exists nor is about to any time in the near-term (the Middle of the Market aircraft),… Read More
Posted on June 17, 2015 by Scott Hamilton
June 8, 2015, c. Leeham Co. Bombardier suppliers, already squeezed by Airbus and Boeing to cut costs and prices, will soon face a new effort from Bombardier to do the same. The new chief executive officer, Alain Bellemare, last… Read More
Posted on June 8, 2015 by Scott Hamilton
Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, CSeries, Embraer, Pratt & Whitney
737, 777, A319, A320, Airbus, Alain Bellemare, Boeing, Bombardier, CS100, CS300, CS500, CSeries, E-190, Embraer, Global 7000, Global 8000, Henri Coupron, IATA, International Air Transport Assn., John Leahy, Lear 85, Pratt & Whitney, United Technologies
May 28, 2015, c. Leeham Co. Embraer is ramping up is messaging that the E-Jet family provides a better Return on Capital Employed in many circumstance than the larger Airbus and Boeing single-aisle family. In a new push… Read More
Posted on May 28, 2015 by Scott Hamilton
By Bjorn Fehrm Introduction May 25, 2015, c. Leeham Co. Friday we showed our little video from our test flight of Airbus A350 at end of April. Now it is time to describe the impressions during the flight… Read More
Posted on May 26, 2015 by Bjorn Fehrm