Type Subsidiary Products Aircraft Founder Michimasa Fujino | Industry Aviation Website www.hondajet.com Founded August 2006 | |
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Key people Michimasa Fujino, President and CEO Number of employees 1200+ as of October 2014 Headquarters Greensboro, North Carolina, United States Parent organizations Honda Motor Company, American Honda Motor Company Profiles | ||
Honda aircraft company begins hondajet deliveries
The Honda Aircraft Company is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Honda Motor Company that has developed the prototype HondaJet and is slated to manufacture and market the production version of the aircraft. The company was formed as a separate entity in August 2006 under the leadership of president and CEO Michimasa Fujino.
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On 10 October 2011 Honda announced at the National Business Aviation Association Convention and Exhibition in Orlando, Fla, that the company would construct an 80,000-square-foot customer service facility near the world headquarters as an expansion of Honda Aircraft Company’s world headquarters in Greensboro, North Carolina. The $80 million expansion is expected to and add over 400 jobs to the city.
The corporate headquarters are located at the Piedmont Triad International Airport in Greensboro, North Carolina, where the prototype HondaJet was also developed and flight tested. In February 2007 the Honda Aircraft Company announced plans to build a 215,000-square-foot (20,000 m2) office and manufacturing facility in Greensboro to support HondaJet production for deliveries in 2010. In April 2009 the company announced a delayed schedule with test flights in early 2010 and deliveries beginning in late 2011. In August 2010 Honda announced further delays: test flights would begin in November, but actually happened on 21 December 2010, and first deliveries to customers were originally planned to be in 2012.
On 8 December 2015 the Federal Aviation Administration officially type certified the HondaJet. The first delivery occurred on 23 December 2015.