Honda Aircraft Company
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Honda Aircraft Company is an
Honda Aircraft has introduced a number of innovations in
History
Honda’s aircraft research began as a top-secret research project within Honda R&D in 1986.
Honda Aircraft Company’s first aircraft, the
After Honda decided to commercialize the HondaJet program, Fujino was tasked with transforming his small research team of thirty engineers into a large-scale company capable of aircraft manufacture and providing long-term customer support.[23] Fujino searched for employees from across the world, eventually creating an international, multi-lingual staff.[24] Between 2006 and 2015, Honda Motors invested over $200 million to expand the Honda Aircraft Company facilities from a single hangar to an over 133-acre campus consisting of an R&D center, manufacturing plant, customer service center, and office headquarters.[25] As of 2020, the company has delivered over 150 of their aircraft to customers in over 40 countries.[26] Honda Aircraft Company and its CEO Michimasa Fujino served as a case study for Harvard Business School professor Gary Pisano, who in his 2019 book Creative Construction classifies Honda Aircraft as an example of start-up like behavior within a large, established corporation.[27]
In 2015, the Honda Aircraft Company received type certification for its first aircraft, the
After receiving FAA type-certification in 2015, over the next few years Honda Aircraft Company expanded its sales operations to many other countries.[34][35][36][37]
In 2018, Honda Aircraft Company began partnering with other companies to provide aircraft for charter.[38][39][40]
On May 20, 2019, Honda Aircraft Company announced that they were building a new 15.5 million dollar facility in Greensboro N.C.,[41] which was completed in September 2020.[42]
In October 2021, Honda Aircraft unveiled the HondaJet 2600 Concept, a new aircraft concept, during the 2021 NBAA Convention held in Las Vegas.[43] This concept design uses many of the elements of the original HondaJet, such as the over-wing engine placement, but features a larger cabin with room for 11 passengers and a longer range of 2,625 nm (4,862 km). Honda Aircraft announced the HondaJet 2600 Concept to determine market interest, and subsequently announced the commercialization of the concept on June 13, 2023.[44]
In February 2022, Honda Aircraft announced that founder Michimasa Fujino would retire as president and CEO of the company on April 1, and that Honda Motor vice president Hideto Yamasaki would assume leadership of Honda Aircraft upon the retirement of Fujino, who would continue as a consultant for the company.[45]
In October 2023, Honda Aircraft named the Honda 2600 Concept the HondaJet Echelon during the 2023 NBAA Convention in Las Vegas. The development timeline for the project includes construction beginning in early 2024, with the first flight planned in 2026 and certification anticipated in 2028.[46]
Aircraft
Model name | Type Certified | Type |
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Hondajet
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2015 | Twin-engine light business jet, 6-passenger |
HondaJet APMG | 2018 | Twin-engine light business jet, 6-passenger |
HondaJet Elite | 2018 | Twin-engine light business jet, 8-passenger |
HondaJet Elite II | 2022 | Twin-engine light business jet, 8-passenger |
HondaJet Echelon | Twin-engine light business jet, 10-passenger[47] |
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