HondaJet World Flight to Take Off from AirVenture
Julian MacQueen, with wife Kim MacQueen and Travis Holland, will circumnavigate the world with a HondaJet in a trip dubbed "Around the World in 80 Stays."
(At front: left to right) HondaJet SouthEast sales manager Bob Van Riper, pilot Julian MacQueen, wife Kim MacQueen, Honda Aircraft v-p Doug Danuser, Honda Aircraft director of sales for Latin America Ryan Ramos and the Honda Aircraft team celebrate delivery day for the aircraft used during the world flight at HondaJet’s Greensboro factory. (Photo: Honda Aircraft Company)
(At front: left to right) HondaJet SouthEast sales manager Bob Van Riper, pilot Julian MacQueen, wife Kim MacQueen, Honda Aircraft v-p Doug Danuser, Honda Aircraft director of sales for Latin America Ryan Ramos and the Honda Aircraft team celebrate delivery day for the aircraft used during the world flight at HondaJet’s Greensboro factory. (Photo: Honda Aircraft Company)

Julian MacQueen, pilot and founder and CEO of Innisfree Hotels, and his wife, Kim, will be the first people to circumnavigate the globe in a HondaJet. The trip, dubbed “Around the World in 80 Stays,” features MacQueen as pilot-in-command with Travis Holland of Holland Aero handling logistics and Kim focusing on public outreach. MacQueen will depart from AirVenture at the end of the week and head toward Pensacola, Florida, to pick up his wife. Including a kickoff ceremony at Honda’s Greensboro factory, the MacQueens and Holland will stop at approximately 80 locations around the world and end the tour in October at the NBAA Convention in Las Vegas.