Mitsubishi Delays Delivery of MRJ on Certification Issue
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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.’s aircraft unit, which is making Japan’s first regional passenger jet, pushed back the delivery of its first plane by more than a year after delays in certification.
Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. will hand over its first plane in the second quarter of 2017, instead of an earlier plan to deliver by March 2016, the company said in a statement in Tokyo today. The aircraft’s initial test flight has been delayed to the second quarter of 2015 as against in the last three months of this year.