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Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has completed the ferry flight to the United States for the first test aircraft (FTA-1) of the MRJ (Mitsubishi Regional Jet), the next-generation regional jet.
Mitsubishi Aircraft is committed to carrying out frequent, multiple flight tests in the U.S. to accelerate the development of the MRJ toward type certificate acquisition in 2018.
FTA-1 took off from Nagoya Airfield in Japan at 1:28 p.m. on Sept. 26, 2016 Japan Standard Time (JST) and arrived at Grant County International Airport in Washington, the U.S., at 9:44 a.m. on Sept. 29 (JST) (5:44 p.m. on Sept. 28 in local time).
Mitsubishi Aircraft and MHI remain committed to achieving steady progress in flight tests with the assistance of three engineering bases (Moses Lake Flight Test Center, the MRJ flight test centre within Grant County International Airport; Seattle Engineering Center and Mitsubishi Aircraft Headquarters in Japan) working together toward the success of the MRJ project.
