The Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ) represents a bold leap for Japan into the global aviation spotlight. As Japan’s first ...

Mitsubishi Aircraft has overhauled the MRJ programme, rebranding under the name SpaceJet, cancelling MRJ70 development and starting work on a new 76-seat variant called the SpaceJet M100.

By April 2021, Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation had laid off all but 150 of its employees, including all of its international staff. For the next 23 months, the SpaceJet program sat in limbo.

"We are proceeding pretty much in line with plans," Hisakazu Mizutani, president of Mitsubishi Aircraft, said in Dec. 2017, referring to the mid-2020 deadline. "We can just about make it." ...

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries is cutting hundreds of jobs in Washington state and shuttering its U.S. operations for the troubled SpaceJet project, the company said Friday. “Due to the budget ...

Mitsubishi Aircraft is already well into flight testing the M90. But at the 2019 Paris air show it launched the M100, an aircraft that, with an 86,000lb MTOW, would be tailored to the US market.

In an interview, the president of Mitsubishi Aircraft talks about the first made-in-Japan commercial airliner in half a century.

Mitsubishi Aircraft, which is an arm of the famous Japanese automaker, will employ about 150 engineers who will help analyze test flight data for the new Mitsubishi Regional Jet, or MRJ.

Mitsubishi Aircraft has found a third customer for its planned next-generation regional jet, getting a massive order for 100 aircraft from U.S.-based SkyWest valued at $4.2 billion.

Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation revealed the name of its line of regional planes on Thursday. The company -- part of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries -- announced the SpaceJet regional aircraft line ...