![]() If there was ever a hope for the country’s industry returning to commercial aircraft manufacturing as the OEM, that has now gone. ![]() The loss to Japanese industry and government is more than just the $7 billion funneled into the ill-fated program. 7 that it will not restart development of the aircraft. But another eight years on and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has finally pulled the plug on the project, officially stating Feb. The 60-seat Rolls-Royce Dart-powered turboprop was the first Japanese civil aircraft after World War II, and the hope was for it to be the first of many.Ī little over 50 years later, in 2015, what was then called the Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ) took off for its first flight having been launched eight years earlier. In 1962, the Nihon Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation (NAMC) YS-11 took off for its first flight.
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