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More HondaJet delays push approval to 3Q12
The HondaJet program has once again been delayed.

The HondaJet program has once again been delayed. Honda Aircraft this week began notifying buyers that delivery of the first HA-420 HondaJet is now planned for the third quarter of 2012. “Regrettably we’ve experienced delays in some components,” HondaJet spokesman Stephen Keeney told AIN. He could not identify the suppliers involved in the latest setback for the program.

The maiden flight of the first design- and production-conforming HondaJet is now scheduled for this November, and FAA certification should take place 20 months later, late in the third quarter of 2012. The previous schedule had the first conforming HondaJet taking flight in the middle of this year, followed by certification and entry-into-service at the end of 2011.

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