Honda plans to begin manufacture of planes.
Japanese motor-car manufacturer Honda Motor Co. plans to begin manufacture of planes. As Associated Press informs referring to anonymous sources in the company, reception of orders will begin already in the end of 2006. Earlier some American mass-media have published the information that Honda is going to debut in the market small business-planes. Representatives of the company yet do not give official comments in occasion of these messages. We shall remind, that development compact business-planes Honda has started still in 1986, using the engines given by other manufacturers. In December 2003 Honda Motor Co. has successfully finished tests HondaJet - the new experimental plane of a business class. HondaJet, equipped by turbofan engines Honda HF118, represents the first developed Honda the plane (the occupancy is 4-8 person), on whom the engines created by the company are established.