Engines
Honda breaks ground on new engine plant
Honda Aero held a groundbreaking ceremony for its new engine plant in Burlington, N.C., on November 28.

Honda Aero held a groundbreaking ceremony for its new engine plant in Burlington, N.C., on November 28. The plant will assemble and test new GE Honda Aero HF120 turbofans selected to power the HondaJet and Spectrum Aeronautical’s
S-40 Freedom.

The $27 million 102,400-sq-ft plant will employ about 200 people when it reaches initial capacity of 200 engines annually one year after production begins. An 8,000-sq-ft test cell is also part of the plant and is sized to allow Honda Aero to test larger engines as the GE Honda engine series expands.