Aircraft
Honda chooses suppliers for nascent jet
Honda Aircraft officials have decided to outsource manufacture of major portions of the HondaJet, including the fuselage and wings.

Honda Aircraft officials have decided to outsource manufacture of major portions of the HondaJet, including the fuselage and wings. The company also reiterated its plans to equip the HondaJet with a Garmin avionics suite, naming Garmin the official supplier of a system “tailored for the HondaJet.”

GKN Aerospace, an experienced maker of composite components for major aerospace manufacturers, will build the HondaJet’s composite fuselage subassembly. Unlike the filament-wound fuselage on the Raytheon Premier I and Hawker Horizon, the HondaJet fuselage is made of four plies of carbon fiber in a co-cured laminate, with embedded copper mesh to facilitate lightning protection.

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