Aircraft
PROGRAM UPDATE:
Last spring, Honda Aircraft (Booth No.

Last spring, Honda Aircraft (Booth No. 5394) brought a new cabin mockup of its twinjet to the European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (EBACE). Here at NBAA’09, the Greensboro, N.C.-based manufacturer is showing its HondaJet prototype and a fuselage mockup in its exhibit.

The HondaJet development program remains on its revised schedule for initial customer deliveries in the fourth quarter of 2011, according to Stephen Keeney, senior manager of corporate affairs. Assembly is well under way on the first conforming aircraft in Honda Aircraft’s new research-and-development center in Greensboro, he said. The first conforming airplane is expected to fly in January 2010, marking the start of the formal certification program. The schedule represents a one-year “adjustment” announced last spring as a result of supplier issues.