The world’s highly sophisticated light jet aircraft, is well under production by Honda Aircraft Company. Making the announcement recently at a meeting in Florida, the company talked about certain milestones that it has covered successfully, thus enabling to finally give the green flag for the production of the HondaJet. In the past years, Honda Aircraft has accomplished different structural tests and flight systems including speedbrake testing, crash tests, night lighting testing, bird strike testing and ultimate load tests.
Honda Aircraft’s current test program includes 5 FAA-conforming HondaJet aircraft, 1 ground test aircraft and 3 dynamically flying test aircraft. The performance of HondaJet aircraft’s under intense temperatures has also been tested in Yuma, Arizona. These tests also included testing the electrical generator cooling, as hot fuel testing, fuselage temperature validation etc. A42-foot, custom mobile telemetry truck was designed to help in the remote location testing of HondaJet.
It is no surprise to see Honda Aircraft make steady progress with complete dedication in delivery of the first customer aircraft at its production facility in North Carolina. Standardized production work will keep away any defects to deliver a high quality product, based on its own improvement device. Michimasa Fujino, President and CEO of Honda Aircraft, commented that HondaJet production is one of the most important milestone in timeline of the HondaJet program till date.