Last Hurdle Overcome Before Taking The Long-Awaited Jet To Market
The FAA has granted certification to the HondaJet. This is the final step before full production can begin at the company's manufacturing base in Greensboro, NC.... and we imagine the partying has already begun. The airplane is about five years behind schedule, according to a number of reports. There are more than 100 orders for the $4.5 million seven-seat airplane, mostly from North America and Europe. At NBAA in Las Vegas, company president and CEO Michimasa Fujino said that the company was expecting to wrap up flight testing in November, and that he expected the FAA would grant certification "very soon." He was right.
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