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2019 Outlook: A critical year for Mitsubishi’s MRJ regional jet

By Bjorn Fehrm Subscription Required Introduction January 8, 2019, © Leeham News.: Mitsubishi Aircraft’s MRJ should originally have entered service 2013. Now the plan is 2020, a record seven years of delay. But 2020 can be the last… Read More

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 Posted on January 8, 2019 by

 Mitsubishi, Pratt & Whitney, Premium

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Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation’s tough 2017

By Bjorn Fehrm January 02, 2018, ©. Leeham Co: The past year was difficult for Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation (MAC) and its MRJ regional airliner. Although clear progress was made in the flight-testing of the MRJ, problems were found with… Read More

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 Posted on January 2, 2018 by

 Bombardier, E-Jet, Embraer, Mitsubishi, Pratt & Whitney

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Bjorn’s Corner: Communicate or not?

19 February 2016, ©. Leeham Co: Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation (MAC) announced on Christmas Day that they delayed the entry into service of the MRJ90 regional airliner by over a year. At the same time, they also announced that… Read More

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 Posted on February 19, 2016 by

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Bjorn’s Corner: Exciting 2016

29 January 2016, ©. Leeham Co: In the corner of two weeks ago we did a retrospective of 2015. Time for looking ahead. The year of 2016 will be quite interesting. We had entry into service of the… Read More

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 Posted on January 29, 2016 by

 Airbus, Bjorn's Corner, Boeing, Bombardier, Comac, CSeries, E-Jet, Embraer, Irkut, Mitsubishi, Sukhoi, United Aircraft

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Bjorn’s Corner: What did we learn in 2015?

08 January 2016, ©. Leeham Co: It’s the first Corner for the year and a look at 2015 as a year of technology advancements is due. 2015 will be remembered as the year when three clean sheet airliners… Read More

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 Posted on January 8, 2016 by

 Airbus, Bjorn's Corner, Boeing, Bombardier, China, Comac, CSeries, Embraer, Irkut, Mitsubishi, Pratt & Whitney, United Aircraft

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Mitsubishi opens Seattle Engineering Center ahead of MRJ90 first flight

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

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 Posted on August 3, 2015 by

 Airlines, Bombardier, Comac, E-Jet, Embraer, Mitsubishi, Pratt & Whitney, Sukhoi

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Pratt & Whitney sees long-term aviation growth, airline profits

April 2, 2015: Paul Adams, president of Pratt & Whitney, provided an “state of the business” of PW during the second day of the Media Days. We follow our usual format of recapping his comments in paraphrased form…. Read More

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 Posted on April 2, 2015 by

 Airbus, Bombardier, CSeries, Mitsubishi, Pratt & Whitney

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Farnborough Air Show, July 15: Orders summary

Here are the orders and commitments announced today that we saw–there could be others we haven’t seen: Airbus: Avolon (a lessor) ordered 15 A330neos; CIT Aerospace, MOU for 16 A330-900s, five A321neos; SMBC Aviation (lessor), 110 A320neo and… Read More

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 Posted on July 15, 2014 by

 Airbus, ATR, Boeing, Bombardier, CFM, Embraer, Mitsubishi, Pratt & Whitney

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Farnborough Air Show, July 15: WA State and Mitsubishi; PW GTF issue revealed, finally;

The news that Mitsubishi will stage flight testing for its new MRJ 90-seat jet program at Moses Lake (WA) is, parochially, good news. And it is exactly the type of non-industrial aerospace business that we’ve been advocating for… Read More

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 Posted on July 15, 2014 by

 Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, CSeries, Embraer, Farnborough Air Show, Mitsubishi, Pratt & Whitney

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CSeries setback as PW GTF has reported uncontained failure

Exclusive interview with Robert Saia, vice president of the Next Generation Product Family at Pratt & Whitney. PW believes it has a “good understanding” of what happened. Flight testing might resume quickly, reducing risk of program delay. Customers… Read More

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 Posted on June 1, 2014 by

 Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, GE Aviation, Pratt & Whitney, Rolls-Royce

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