New Japanese jet to take off from Moses Lake

Jessica Buxbaum Jul 1, 2025

Feb 6, 2018

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                <h1>New Japanese jet to take off from Moses Lake </h1>
                <h2><p>Once upon a time, Moses Lake was largely rural. Now it’s a growing heavy industry and high-tech manufacturing hub with desirable runways (for planes not Prada). Japan’s Mitsubishi Aircraft will create a flight-test center in Moses Lake to test out its new jet next fall, The Seattle Times</p></h2>
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               <p>By <a href="/author/jrb211-humboldt-edu/">Jessica Buxbaum</a></p> 
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            <p>Once upon a time, Moses Lake was largely rural. Now it’s a growing heavy industry and high-tech manufacturing hub with desirable runways (for planes not Prada). Japan’s Mitsubishi Aircraft will create a flight-test center in Moses Lake to test out its new jet next fall, <a href="http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2024064957_airshownewsmondayxml.html?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">The Seattle Times reports</a>. The project will employ about 100 people and will involve technical support from Seattle-based company AeroTEC, which provides flight-testing and aircraft certification services. Mitsubishi was attracted to Washington’s aerospace expertise and Grant County International Airport’s new hangar, clear weather and long, uncrowded runways. At the Farnborough Air Show, Gov. Jay Inslee <a href="http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2024064957_airshownewsmondayxml.html?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">told The Times</a> (which — Bravo! — is covering the show) that the project “sets up an infrastructure for airplane certification and testing that may lead to bigger and better things.” — E.W.</p>
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Once upon a time, Moses Lake was largely rural. Now it’s a growing heavy industry and high-tech manufacturing hub with desirable runways (for planes not Prada). Japan’s Mitsubishi Aircraft will create a flight-test center in Moses Lake to test out its new jet next fall, The Seattle Times reports. The project will employ about 100 people and will involve technical support from Seattle-based company AeroTEC, which provides flight-testing and aircraft certification services. Mitsubishi was attracted to Washington’s aerospace expertise and Grant County International Airport’s new hangar, clear weather and long, uncrowded runways. At the Farnborough Air Show, Gov. Jay Inslee told The Times (which — Bravo! — is covering the show) that the project “sets up an infrastructure for airplane certification and testing that may lead to bigger and better things.” — E.W.

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By Jessica Buxbaum

Crosscut editorial intern Jessica Buxbaum recently moved to Seattle from California where she studied political science at Humboldt State University and worked on the university's newspaper and magazi