{"id":231626,"date":"2019-09-20T02:39:13","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T06:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=231626"},"modified":"2019-09-20T02:39:13","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T06:39:13","slug":"mitsubishi-announces-aircraft-design-centre-in-montreal-for-spacejet-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/09\/20\/mitsubishi-announces-aircraft-design-centre-in-montreal-for-spacejet-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitsubishi announces aircraft design centre in Montreal for SpaceJet series"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_184033\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-184033\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/DogG5IUXoAASX-0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-184033\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/DogG5IUXoAASX-0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"638\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/DogG5IUXoAASX-0.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/DogG5IUXoAASX-0-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/DogG5IUXoAASX-0-768x510.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-184033\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Premier Francois Legault says the Quebec government will lend Mitsubishi $12 million, which will be forgiven if the Japanese firm provides high-paid employment for 250 workers over five years. (File <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/francoislegault\/status\/1047094563138097152\">Photo:<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/francoislegault\/\">@francoislegault\/Twitter<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MONTREAL &#8212; The Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. is putting down roots in Quebec, unveiling plans for a new product development centre in the Montreal area after reaching a deal in June to buy Bombardier Inc.&#8217;s regional jet program.<\/p>\n<p>The office will be part of the company&#8217;s push to get a single-aisle airliner off the ground in 2020 as it doubles down on regional jets. It plans to hire 100 engineers and certification specialists in Montreal within a year to assist the point team in Washington state.<\/p>\n<p>Premier Francois Legault says the Quebec government will lend Mitsubishi $12 million, which will be forgiven if the Japanese firm provides high-paid employment for 250 workers over five years.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Bellamy, the company&#8217;s chief development officer, says the loan helped Mitsubishi to settle quickly on the Montreal area, which has a rich cluster of aeronautics firms, after idea was first floated at the Paris Air Show in July.<\/p>\n<p>Bellamy says Mitsubishi Aircraft, owned by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., aims to seize on the region&#8217;s technical expertise to develop the SpaceJet program, which has seen setbacks since 2013, when the first model was initially scheduled for delivery.<\/p>\n<p>That 88-seat M90 plane, which will have no middle seats, is now expected to enter into service next year, to be followed in 2023 by the 76-seat M100.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 19, 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONTREAL &#8212; The Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. is putting down roots in Quebec, unveiling plans for a new product development centre &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":184033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231628,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231626\/revisions\/231628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}