BeechTalk - BT

Username Protected · **Posted:** 23 May 2017, 16:03

I'm showing a total of 37 HondaJets delivered... that doesn't seem too bad... but I just read where they are starting a fractional business called Hop a Honda... just kidding... it's "FlyHonda" but still!

I'm now wondering if sales are as strong as they expected...

Username Protected · **Posted:** 23 May 2017, 16:28

They would get sued by Hop-a-Jet

Username Protected · **Posted:** 23 May 2017, 19:58

I bet with their notoriously patient outlook, they're just taking their time ramping up to higher rate production so as not to introduce quality problems into their line. I thought they had sold several hundred of them.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 24 May 2017, 12:46

The local Honda dealer for our area just this morning visited our Aero club. They left some brochures and gave an interesting presentation on the jet. Sounds like a winner, hope they succeed. Lots of useful features not available in that class of airplane (Phenom 100 and M2) like externally serviceable potty, single point refueling and the nose wheel unlocks itself for ramp operations.
Hopefully once they get past the initial sales pipeline they expand into a LR version of the jet.

rgs,

Patrick.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 24 May 2017, 12:56

I have been holding off on ordering mine because I don't have that much $$$$$ maybe next year :thumbup:

Username Protected · **Posted:** 24 May 2017, 12:57

Wow only 37? Saw this 2017 a few weeks ago. First one I've seen in the wild. Both of my non pilot pax were much more interested in this than all the old/new citations, PC-12's etc on the ramp even before I told them it was brand new and made by Honda.

I was happy to see one of them was even more into the beautiful T-Bone I was parked next to though. :thumbup:

Username Protected · **Posted:** 24 May 2017, 14:21

I love them. I wish they could pack some more range into it.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 24 May 2017, 17:12

Username Protected wrote:

I love them. I wish they could pack some more range into it.

that comes in the follow on products. More seats, more wingspan, a little more thrust, more range.

Think CJ development and evolution.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 24 May 2017, 22:27

Backlog is about 1.5 years right now.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 24 May 2017, 22:47

It's a very cool airplane, flying it again tomorrow. Quietest plane I've ever flown. Incredibly fast. It's not a long range airplane though and for that reason I wonder why they wasted so much space on the aft lav. It's a 3 hr airplane.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 24 May 2017, 23:49

Jason--When/If you get one then you too can hog the start cart and make all the lowly TP's wait.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 25 May 2017, 07:20

Username Protected wrote:

Jason--When/If you get one then you too can hog the start cart and make all the lowly TP's wait.

Ha. Yup. That was a fun story.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 25 May 2017, 07:22

Username Protected wrote:

It's a very cool airplane, flying it again tomorrow. Quietest plane I've ever flown. Incredibly fast. It's not a long range airplane though and for that reason I wonder why they wasted so much space on the aft lav. It's a 3 hr airplane.

I suppose all jets this size are about 3 hour planes.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 25 May 2017, 09:33

Username Protected wrote:

.... I wonder why they wasted so much space on the aft lav. It's a 3 hr airplane.

Because they met my wife who apparently has a bladder the size of a thimble. :doh:

Username Protected · **Posted:** 25 May 2017, 13:04

Username Protected wrote:

It's a very cool airplane, flying it again tomorrow. Quietest plane I've ever flown. Incredibly fast. It's not a long range airplane though and for that reason I wonder why they wasted so much space on the aft lav. It's a 3 hr airplane.

I suppose all jets this size are about 3 hour planes.

HondaJet sales sluggish?