Honda Aircraft Company Announces Banyan Air Service as the HondaJet Dealer for the Southeast United States

GREENSBORO, N.C.— Aug. 14, 2014 — Honda Aircraft Company announced today a new HondaJet dealer for the Southeast United States. Banyan Air Service Inc., based at the Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport (FXE), will provide HondaJet sales and service for the eight-state territory that includes Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee and South Carolina.

“Banyan Air Service has an outstanding reputation for providing exemplary customer satisfaction through aircraft sales and service. We are proud to have a partner who shares Honda’s commitment in making customers our highest priority,” said Honda Aircraft President and CEO Michimasa Fujino. “Banyan Air Service will complement and further strengthen the HondaJet dealer network.”

Banyan Air Service was established in 1979 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The company has more than 30 years’ experience serving the general aviation market, and its facility is a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and European Aviation Safety Administration (EASA) certified repair station. The company provides 24-hour Fixed Based Operation (FBO) services as well as heavy aircraft maintenance, full avionics capabilities and turbine engine services. Banyan Air Service’s maintenance division has been recognized as an FAA Diamond Award recipient, and the company is consistently ranked by the industry as one of the country’s top FBOs.

“We are excited to represent the HondaJet in the Southeast U.S.,” said Banyan Air Service President Don Campion. “Banyan Air Service looks forward to providing exceptional aviation services to HondaJet customers.”

HondaJet dealers in North America and Europe are diligently preparing for entry to service and will provide customers the quality of service expected from Honda.

About HondaJet
The HondaJet is the world’s most advanced light business jet aircraft, with best-in-class advantages in performance, comfort, quality and efficiency. The HondaJet is the fastest, highest-flying, quietest, and most fuel-efficient jet in its class. The HondaJet incorporates many technological innovations in aviation design, including the unique Over-The-Wing Engine Mount (OTWEM) configuration that dramatically improves performance and fuel efficiency by reducing aerodynamic drag. The OTWEM design also reduces cabin sound, minimizes ground-detected noise, and allows for the roomiest cabin in its class, the largest baggage capacity, and a fully serviceable private aft lavatory. The HondaJet is powered by two highly fuel-efficient GE Honda HF120 turbofan jet engines, and is equipped with the most sophisticated glass flight deck available in any light business jet, a Honda-customized Garmin® G3000 next-generation, all-glass avionics system composed of three 14-inch landscape-format displays and dual touch-screen controllers. The HondaJet is Honda’s first commercial aircraft and lives up to the company’s reputation for superior performance, efficiency, quality and value.

Honda Aircraft Company
Honda Aircraft Company, LLC, is a wholly owned subsidiary of American Honda Motor Co., Inc. Founded in 2006, Honda Aircraft has its heritage in more than 20 years of groundbreaking aeronautical research and development. At Honda Aircraft’s world headquarters in North Carolina, the birthplace of aviation, the company’s associates work in more than 600,000 square feet of state-of-the-art R&D, production, administration and customer service facilities to develop, produce, market and support the HondaJet with HondaJet dealers. The challenging spirit upon which Mr. Soichiro Honda founded Honda Motor Co., Ltd. is alive today as Honda Aircraft fulfills one of Honda’s long-standing dreams to advance human mobility skyward.

SOURCE: HondaJet