First Conforming HondaJet Scheduled to Fly This Summer; R&D Center Opens

Honda is assembling its first conforming prototype HondaJet at its original facility at Piedmont Triad Airport in Greensboro, North Carolina. But future work on the project will soon move to the recently completed 400,000-square-foot research and development facility. Honda reports it still expects to deliver the first of its unique over-the-wing engine jets in 2010.

Mark Phelps is a senior editor at AVweb. He is an instrument rated private pilot and former owner of a Grumman American AA1B and a V-tail Bonanza.

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