The Mitsubishi Heavy Industries company manufactured and designed in the 1970s the MU-300 twin engined business jet. It was called the MU-300 Diamond. The aircraft was besides business jet also very succesful as small passenger jet. The Beechcraft company in the USA acquired license rights in 1988 and manufactured the type under the name Beechjet 400 and later Hawker 400 / Raytheon T-1. It was also used by the USAF as T-1A. The Japanese Air Self Defense Force called it the T-400. In total nearly 1,000 jets were manufactured.
MU-300 / T-400
This MU-300 was seen on display at the Gifu Kakamigahara Air and Space museum at Nagoya, Japan. I was honoured to meet and talk with great pleasure to the aircraft designer who also happened to be in the museum.
Photographed March 2024 by Meindert de Vreeze (c) Copyright!
Plastic scale models in 1/72 of the MU-300 and Hawker 400 are from Amodel/ SOVA-M.
This walk around page was first published November 2024 by M. de Vreeze; note the Copyright!