Honda Jet Gets Public

Honda Jet, which completed its first successful flight on May 4, 2012 and later exhibited in Geneva Aviation conference is now ready for mass production. Honda Aircraft Company mentioned in a press release that the success of F3, painted in yellow and white signature HondaJet paint scheme, highlights the HondaJet’s growth and momentum toward certification.

The flight was completed by Stefan Johansson who was pilot-in-command, accompanied by Howard Judd, a co-pilot. During the flight, they conducted several checks to ensure the performance and security of the jet. These checks include takeoff and climb, technically handling aircraft, confirm air data system checks, flap operations, landing gear and an instrument Landing System approach with the help of flight director.

In general, it was a smooth flight that remained in air for 74 minutes. According to pilots and telemetry teams, the flight was 11,500 feet above the ground with the speed of 313 Knots True Air Speed (KTAS).

“The first flight of F3 shows the steady advancement on our course toward delivering to our customers an aircraft that offers not only superior performance, efficiency and comfort, but also superior quality,” said Michimasa Fujino, President and CEO of Honda Aircraft Company. “We continue to see refinement in reliability and quality of our aircraft. We are successfully establishing our manufacturing foundation and process that contribute to creating high quality product, as well as to a great flying performance and experience, as our pilots report from just our first week of flying F3.”

Honda Aircraft is now done with four FAA-conforming aircraft. Three of them were in its flight test fleet, and one more aircraft was used in its structural ground test program. According to the president and CEO of Honda Aircraft Company, the company is committed to offer high-tech jet to their customers and will hopefully start delivering the jets by 2013.In addition, they are constantly improving product details to meet customer’ expectations, and the new Honda jet aircraft is the recent example of it.

The first and foremost purpose of F3 aircrafts is to be used for avionics and electrical system flight testing elements within the HondaJet certification program, and it has already started its test mission work.