Aircraft
HondaJet Production To Reach 80 Annually by March 2019
In the first nine months, 16 of the $4.85 million light jets have been handed over to customers.
Production of the HA-420 HondaJet is expected to ramp up to 80 aircraft by March 2019, said HondaJet president and CEO Michimasa Fujino. In the first nine months, 16 of the $4.85 million light jets have been handed over to customers. (Photo: Honda Aircraft)
Production of the HA-420 HondaJet is expected to ramp up to 80 aircraft by March 2019, said HondaJet president and CEO Michimasa Fujino. In the first nine months, 16 of the $4.85 million light jets have been handed over to customers. (Photo: Honda Aircraft)

Honda Aircraft plans to ramp up production of the HA-420 HondaJet to 80 units per year by mid-2019, company president and CEO Michimasa Fujino told Japanese reporters visiting its plant in Greensboro, North Carolina, on Friday. By the end of Honda’s 2018 financial year, meaning March 2019, “We'd like to be near full production of around 80 units," he said.