Three aircraft, one mission

The default for a party of four. A 3,192-foot balanced field gets you into the airport beside the plant rather than the one forty minutes away, and it carries a whole-airframe parachute — the only jet in production that does.

Trade-off. Four seats. If there are five of you it is out, and on a 500 nm day the HondaJet gets you an extra half hour on the ground for the same money.

Seats

4

Cruise

305 kt

Planning range

1,000 nm

Balanced field

3,192 ft

Baggage

32 cu ft

• Whole-airframe parachute (CAPS) — the only jet in production with one
• Safe Return emergency autoland any passenger can press
• Gets into the shortest jet-capable fields on the network

Full Vision Jet detail — specifications, safety systems and cost

The fast one, and at a flat rate that speed is free — 422 knots takes a real bite out of a 500 nm leg, and on a day trip every minute saved in the air is a minute added on the ground.

Trade-off. Needs 3,990 feet of runway, so a handful of the close-in fields on this network are out. It is also the aircraft we are least likely to have free at short notice.

Seats

5

Cruise

422 kt

Planning range

1,200 nm

Balanced field

3,990 ft

Baggage

66 cu ft

• 422 KTAS — fastest in the fleet by a wide margin
• Quietest cabin of the three
• 66 cu ft of baggage, most in class — and the extra speed costs nothing

The hauler. Eight seats, a cargo door, and the shortest field requirement of the three — it will use runways neither jet can. The only option above five passengers, and it costs the same as the other two.

Trade-off. A turboprop, so it is the slowest and the cabin is louder than either jet at cruise. On a long day that difference is felt.

Seats

8

Cruise

290 kt

Planning range

1,400 nm

Balanced field

2,650 ft

Baggage

40 cu ft

• Eight seats and a cargo door
• 2,650-foot balanced field — the shortest in the fleet
• Carries tooling and displays a jet cabin will not take, at the same price