On Sept. 30, 2006, Japan retired the last of its only domestically produced airliner, the YS-11.
About 1,000 people turned out at Tokushima airport to bid adieu to the twin turboprop on its last scheduled flight.
Only 182 YS-11s were built before production terminated in 1973 amid huge losses in Japan's failed attempt to foster a civil aircraft industry.
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