Mitsubishi Aircraft is developing the first Japan-made planes in more than 50 years: the 'SpaceJet.'
The newly named "SpaceJet" will include the smaller M100 and the larger M90.
The company is conducting test flights for its M90 with the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, in a bid to take on larger rivals.Mitsubishi Aircraft is getting closer to launching the first Japan-made airliners in more than half a century: the SpaceJet.now needs regulators and customers to get on board.
Ahead of the Paris Air Show, Mitsubishi unveiled on Thursday the retrofuturistic new brand name and outlined plans to get the program — long plagued by production delays — finally up in the air. It tweaked the design of the smaller of the two planes in the Mitsubishi Regional Jet family to lengthen the cabin and downsize the wings. And it recently started test flights for the larger one, the SpaceJet M90 with the Federal Aviation Administration and the Japan Civil Aviation Bureau in Washington state, where it recently opened new U.S. headquarters.
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