Aircraft News - Asia / Pacific.For more aircraft news, data, fleets and analysis, please go to: http://www.airguideonline.com/professional.htm Aug 14, 2006 Alteon Training, ANA Alteon Training opened a new pilot and maintenance training facility at ANA's Flight Training Center near Tokyo Haneda. ANA will make its simulators available to Alteon for third-party use when the carrier is not using them. Alteon will install a 787 training suite at the facility by the first quarter of 2008. Aug 9, 2006 HondaJet Honda To Sell Mini-Jet In 2010. Japanese car company Honda said on Tuesday it has set up a subsidiary in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. to further develop and sell its seven-person micro-jet, with a goal of delivering the first mass-production HondaJet in 2010. The wholly owned unit, called Honda Aircraft Company The Honda Aircraft Company is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Honda Motor Company that has developed the prototype HondaJet and is slated to manufacture and market the production version of the aircraft. , will will be based at the Piedmont Triad International Airport Piedmont Triad International Airport (IATA: GSO, ICAO: KGSO, FAA LID: GSO) (commonly referred to as "PTIA" or just "PTI") is an airport just west of Greensboro, serving Greensboro, High Point and Winston-Salem in North Carolina. in Greensboro, North Carolina “Greensboro” redirects here. For other uses, see Greensboro (disambiguation). Greensboro, North Carolina (IPA: [ɡɹiːnsbʌɹəʊ]) is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. , where the prototype HondaJet was assembled and test flights carried out over more than three years, it said in a statement. Japan's third-biggest auto maker last month announced long-awaited plans to enter the aviation industry, saying it would start taking orders for the HondaJet later this year. It has entered a wide-ranging alliance with Florida-based Piper Aircraft Piper Aircraft, Inc., is a manufacturer of general aviation aircraft, located in Vero Beach, Florida. History Originally founded as the Taylor Brothers Aircraft Manufacturing Company in September of 1927 by Clarence Gilbert Taylor and Gordon A. that would include sales and marketing of the new plane. HondaJet is the result of 20 years of aviation research at Honda and promises improved fuel economy, a larger cabin and higher cruising speed cruising speed n → velocidad f de crucero cruising speed n → vitesse f de croisière cruising speed cruise n than conventional jets in the same class. Aug 8, 2006 |
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