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## Aerospace Company 

1953 Licensed production of the T-34A Mentor trainer commences 

1958 Successful first flight of Japanese-made T-1 jet trainer test plane 

1961 Prototype of YS-11 twin turboprop airliner, for which FHI sup- plied the empennage and main wing beams, completed 

1963 Manufacture of UH-1B turbine helicopter begun 

1965 Aero Subaru FA-200, the first light airplane to be made in postwar Japan, successfully test-flown 

1969 Utsunomiya Manufacturing Division Aircraft Plant completed 

1978 Contract received from Boeing Commercial Airplane Group for the manufacture of Boeing 767 components 

1982 FHI becomes prime contractor for AH-1S antitank helicopter 

## Industrial Products Company 

1956 KD11 model announced Robin mark adopted for the trademark and registered in July 1960 

1960 Robin Tractor T-4 model introduced 

1968 Production of EY18 Robin engine, mainly for construction equipment, begins 

• Export of engines for Polaris snowmobiles in U.S. commences 

1971 Robin engine export contract signed with Wisconsin Motor of Teledyne, Inc., of the United States 

## Eco Technologies Company 

1955 Official designation as a diesel railcar maker received from Japan National Railways (JNR) 

1960 First Hatsukari diesel express passenger cars completed 

1962 Manufacture of LP-101 Roadpacker begun using technologies from U.S.-based Gawaado Corp. 

1964 Technological alliance signed on trailers with West Germany’s Karlkesboler 

1973 Factory exclusively for the production of Fuji Mighty sanitation trucks completed 

1974 Specialized catenary maintenance car developed for use on the Tokaido Shinkansen bullet train line 

## Others 

1949 Japan’s first frameless rear-engine bus, Fuji, completed (Fuji Sangyo Co., Ltd.) 

1956 Japan’s first air-suspension bus completed and delivered to JNR 

1969 Tomei Highway Bus 1 delivered to JNR 

1971 Prefabricated unit houses introduced 

1977 R1-type full-decker bus launched 

1980 R3-type full-decker bus completed 

1983 Prototype of first Japanese-made double-decker bus completed 

1991 Agreement reached with Boeing providing for FHI’s participation in development of Boeing 777 

1992 Utsunomiya 2nd Plant completed and operations begin 

• Boeing 777 assembly plant (Handa Plant) commences operation 

1996 Successful first flight of high-performance large remote-piloted RPH2 helicopter 

• Successful first flight of FHI-developed new-model helicopter main rotor system Fuji bearingless rotor (FBR) 

• Successful first flight and automated landing of ALFLEX, small-scale automated landing experimental vehicle of HOPE, the H-II Orbiting Plane being developed by the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA) 

1975 Export of Robin RG series generators begins 

1980 EY15-20 launched 

1983 Subaru SG500, the lightest domestic generator for its output, launched 

1992 Subaru SGV series generators with OHV engine introduced 

1993 Robin America, Inc., sales company established in U.S. 

1994 Local U.S. production subsidiary, Robin Manufacturing U.S.A., Inc., established through merger with Polaris Industries 

1975 Practicality of new KRT transportation system demonstrated at Okinawa Marine Expo 

1979 Ohzora (Kiha 183-type) express railcars for Hokkaido completed and delivered 

1982 LE-car, a diesel-engine railway bus, introduced 

1989 Three of the world’s first pendulum-type diesel express cars delivered to JR Shikoku 

1993 Operational testing of Fuswton automated waste management system for high-rises gets under way 

1984 Minihouse developed; launched in March as Fuji Minihouse 

• FHI’s first articulated bus completed; 100 units employed at the Tsukuba ’85 Science Expo 

1987 Astetope sight-seeing bus developed in cooperation with Volvo Bus Corporation 

1994 Low-pollution CNG buses delivered to Tokyo Metropolitan government and other customers 

1996 One-step ultra-low floor compact route bus introduced, the first in its class 

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