HondaJet makes a surprise visit to XNA!

Check out one of Honda's greatest innovations yet: the HondaJet.  One of these elite aircraft was at XNA in Northwest Arkansas this week, and we were lucky enough to grab a picture! Want to know more about these incredible testament's to Honda's commitment to excellence in innovation? Here's the HondaJet story, as found at hondajet.honda.com:


"HondaJet was borne of the power of dreams - power that drove our innovations in aircraft design from thought to drawing board to flight in just seven years.
True innovation in aviation takes a deeper passion, a greater vision, and an enduring determination to set a higher standard in flight.
HondaJet began as an intellectual contemplation and developed into a series of questions: How could a light jet become more efficient, more elegant, more advanced?
Experimentation, exploration, and research ensued - and the HondaJet vision was realized through design innovations that create an integrated, advanced whole.
The realization of a dream is equal parts romance and pragmatism. For every hour spent sketching an elegant wing, equal time is logged building it.

And so HondaJet is remarkable not only in its ideation, but in its execution. 
1997: A thought became a sketch.
1998: A sketch became a wind tunnel model.
1999: A wind tunnel model became a prototype.  In 2000, HondaJet's progress was such that a new research facility was established exclusively for its development.
In 2003, HondaJet undertook its inaugural flight. In 2005, it debuted before a global audience at EAA AirVenture.  In 2006, the jet became available for purchase.  And in 2007, Honda Aircraft Company broke ground on its world headquarters, research and development facility, and aircraft plant in Greensboro, North Carolina.  
Today HondaJet is aloft, an airborne testament to the power of dreams.  Its place in the sky is assured not just by aviators, but by all of us who seek to stretch the bounds of human mobility.  HondaJet allows us to reach past the ordinary to a place where advanced aviation is within our grasp.