Article: Honda Aircraft Company, Established; New Honda Subsidiary Will Market and Produce HondaJet in the U.S.

Tokyo, Japan, Aug 8, 2006 - (JCN Newswire) - Honda Motor Co., Ltd. today announced that is has established a wholly-owned subsidiary, named Honda Aircraft Company, which will be responsible for the further development, sales promotion and production of the innovative HondaJet. The new company will be based in a facility at the Piedmont Triad International Airport in Greensboro, North Carolina, where the prototype HondaJet was assembled and flight tests have been carried out for more than 3 years.

Michimasa Fujino, the chief engineer who has led development of HondaJet and spent the past 20 years in Honda's aviation activities with Honda R&D Co., Ltd., will be ...

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