2011
HONDA AIRCRAFT NEW FACTORY,
With more than $100 million in infrastructure investment at Piedmont Triad International Airport in Greensboro, N.C., Honda Aircraft Company is on schedule to certify its unusual HondaJet by the end of 2012.
Honda Aircraft Company President and CEO Michimasa Fujino.
Honda announced in 2006 that it was going into production with the HondaJet, a proof-of-concept of which had been flying since December 2003.
The first production conforming airplane joined the flight test program in December 2010; a second conforming airplane should be flying in weeks, and a third by the end of the year.
The conforming airplanes have been assembled in a new 500,000-plus-square-foot factory complex at Piedmont Triad International. The complex includes a headquarters building, a research and development facility, and a production facility. Company officials expect 70 to 100 airplanes to be produced a year at the facility.
staff members indicated that the Model 420 HondaJet was just the beginning of a family of products. With its constant cross-section fuselage, the fuselage can easily be stretched. . The current model, has its unusual system of mounting the engines on pylons atop the wing,
With the low-drag engine configuration and specially designed natural laminar flow wing and cockpit area, the airplane easily makes its target cruise speed of 420 knots true airspeed, the flight test pilots confirm. The airplane has an expected IFR range of 1,180 nm and can fly as high as 43,000 feet.
https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2011/july/13/honda-aircraft-unveils-new-factory-hints-at-new-products
2012
Published 5/1/2012
Composite fuselage helps HondaJet
CFRP composites enable unitized structure with low-drag aerodynamics that transform aircraft performance and reduce cost.
https://www.compositesworld.com/articles/composite-fuselage-helps-hondajet-upend-biz-jet-market
2021
Jan 14, 2021
Honda Aircraft Company Opens New Wing Production Facility
Honda Aircraft new wing production facilityGREENSBORO, NC – January 14, 2021— Honda Aircraft Company announced today that it has begun operations at its newly opened Wing Production and Service Parts Facility, located at the company’s world headquarters at the Piedmont Triad International Airport in Greensboro, N.C. The new 83,100 square-foot facility is the latest addition to the 133-acre Honda Aircraft Company campus, and represents an additional investment of $24.3 million,
https://www.hondajet.com/en/News/Honda-Aircraft-Company-Opens-New-Wing-Production-Facility
HondaJet has officially unveiled its all-new $7 million private plane — see inside the Elite II
Taylor Rains
May 22, 2023·
At the European Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition in Switzerland, the Honda Aircraft Company officially debuted the next in its series of small business jets — the $7 million Elite II.
the new model will replace the Elite S, as well as the original Elite and HondaJet,
Since its debut, the global HondaJet fleet has reached 230 planes — 20 of which are in Europe — and has flown over 170,000 flight hours.
https://news.yahoo.com/hondajet-landed-huge-order-brand-122700017.html
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