května roku 1999, dodávky začaly v roce 2000. Konstrukční práce na tomto typu letounu začaly v roce 1995, prototyp poprvé vzlétnul 27.
Oproti CRJ200 jsou verze CRJ700, 900 a 1000 delší, docílilo se toho přidáním nových trupových sekcí. Jsou vyráběny a konstruovány v Québecké výrobně, jedná se o prodlouženějíší verze staršího typu letadla Bombardier CRJ200, ten vychází ze soukromého typu letadla Bombardier Challenger 600. Bombardier CRJ700, CRJ900 a CRJ1000 (původně označována CRJ-X) je „rodina" regionálních dvoumotorových dvouproudých dolnoplošních komerčních dopravních letadel vyráběných původně kanadskou společností Bombardier Aerospace.Embraer is still making the older E175 E1, for this reason. This is the category that the ‘normal’ CRJ700 fits into. Embraer can’t fit the newer P&W GTF engines (of the E2) to the smaller E175 and meet the maximum weight for the 76-seat scope clauses. In terms of efficiency, the CRJ700 family uses the same engines as the first generation of the Embraer E175 family. And if SkyWest gets its way with Mitsubishi, they may get more. Trans State Airlines operates these jets for United. United recently announced an over-reliance on 50-seat aircraft, but are happy with the CRJ550. So with the rest of the industry now recovering, the regionals want to keep their momentum going. With no cross-border restrictions to worry about, companies like Mesa Airlines even remained profitable in 2020. But regional airlines in the US fared much better than anyone else, as we have seen. Airlines and everyone else with a close connection to aviation or hospitality, suffered in the pandemic. And possibly, a miscalculation from Mitsubishi. With the pandemic mostly (?) behind us and the resultant benefit of hindsight, we can see some interesting lessons. And it seems SkyWest is ‘courting’ Mitsubishi, to set up production once again. Efficiency-wise, the per-seat cost is worse than the CRJ700s, but comparable to that of the older, smaller CRJ200. Plus, they offer extra space for carry-on, and decent legroom even for economy passengers. So these jets match the mainline fleet’s offerings much better. However, there has been little (if any) activity on it since.īeing the same as the CRJ700 (the first ones WERE 700s, modified after the fact), the CRJ550 has three-class seating. The manufacturer stopped short of canceling the program – officially at least. All certification efforts outside Japan stopped immediately. This happened at the end of October last year, following severe cuts to the program in the preceding months. They place strict limits on aircraft weight, passenger capacity and fleet size, for regional aircraft fleets.įacing a very uncertain post-pandemic aviation environment and with limited finances, Mitsubishi took the decision to freeze the SpaceJet program. These are agreements between airlines and pilot unions in the United States. Mitsubishi had done its homework, sizing the aircraft for the unique requirements of the US scope clauses. About three quarters of firm orders were from regional airlines in the United States: SkyWest and Mesa Airlines. Early production jets, sporting the colours of customer airlines, were already featuring at airshows.īy late 2019, Mitsubishi had over 200 orders for the aircraft, with nearly as many options. They had already built ten aircraft, and certification testing was well underway, both in Japan and the United States. However, by early 2020 it seemed that Mitsubishi had put most of these problems behind them.
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And it w ent far beyond a paper project.īut from the outset, the program faced long delays, from multiple radical changes in design, plus the engines. This is thanks to two Pratt & Whitney GTF PW1200G engines, plus an up-to-date design, using composites and modern alloys. The MRJ (Mitsubishi Regional Jet), as it was first called, would become the new standard for the market, in terms of efficiency. T he SpaceJet would be Japan’s first indigenous airliner design since the turboprop NAMC YS-11 in the 1960s.
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