Based on positive responses from potential customers, including an initial order for 15 aircraft from All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd., MHI formally launched the MRJ program, targeting the aircraft's entry into service by the year 2013.The first flights of these new aircraft will be in 2011, with a first commercial flight predicted to be airborne in 2013. For more information, please contact katsugi.hirai@sumitomocorp.com As Japan's first company to manufacture and market original passenger jetliners, Mitsubishi Aircraft will fulfill a long-cherished wish of the Japanese aircraft industry, leveraging technological expertise that MHI has built up through its aerospace business. Sumitomo Corporation of America 13