It was designed in Japan in the late 1990s then developed and manufactured in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States. Its first flight took place in 2003 and deliveries commenced in December 2015. A proof-of-concept (but not production-ready) version of the HondaJet first flew on December 3, 2003, at Piedmont Triad International Airport in Greensboro, North Carolina. Honda approved commercial development of the HondaJet in 2004. The HondaJet made its world debut on July 28, 2005, at the annual EAA AirVenture Oshkosh airshow. At the following year's Airventure, Honda announced that it would commercialize the HondaJet. The first flight of the first production HondaJet occurred on June 27, 2014, and it was displayed at that year's AirVenture on 28 July. Four HondaJets had test-flown 2,500 hours as of 2015. The aircraft received its FAA type certificate in December 2015 and received its European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) type certificate in May 2016. The HondaJet was also certified in Japan in December 2018. By October 2018, the 92 aircraft in service had logged 20,000 hours with a 99.7% dispatch reliability. For details of the design and production, click here.
