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But we know all that. Honda wanted to show us what is behind the machine and how it will produce the 70 to 100 HondaJets each year, once the new Garmin G3000 deck is fully integrated, and once the GE-Honda HF120 engines and the aircraft itself get FAA blessing. Delivery is set to commence in the second half of next year.
Honda Aircraft Company invited selected journalists from around the world to an unusually revealing event at their factory campus in July. Rarely does a company grant such access to its top managers (and to HondaJet designer and President Michimasa Fujino, himself). The aircraft is the reason for the company, but the company
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The Machine, the Program, the Future
is what makes the HondaJet a commercial possibility. Here is what they showed us.
Inside Look
The HondaJet facility was designed with input from Honda automotive, and its existence is supported for now by the parent’s $100 billion-plus business that employs some 180,000 people worldwide.
Honda has three large buildings at the Greensboro (N.C.) airport, covering more than a half a million square feet of its 83 acres. The just-finished 263,000-square- foot production building is eerily empty now, but it is
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