GE Honda Aero Engines, a joint venture between GE Aviation and Japan’s Honda, just shipped the first set of production jet engines developed for a sleek new business jet called the HondaJet.
The engine is now in full production at GE Aviation’s plant in Lynn, Mass, according to Terry Sharp, the joint-venture’s president. Sharp said that “significant planning activity” was underway to move manufacturing to a new Honda Aero factory in Burlington, N.C., before the end of the year.