The Original Honda HA-420 HondaJet: A Look At The Company’s First Aircraft

The Honda Aircraft Company was officially founded in August 2006, but Honda had been researching the aircraft business since the 1980s. The company wanted to break into the small business jet market and began prototyping aircraft. In the early 1990s, it built an all-composite light business jet called the Honda MH02 at the Mississippi State University Raspet Flight Research Laboratory. It first flew in the early 1990s and continued flight testing through 1996 after it was moved to Japan.