[Mamzelle]

I read of light jets a year or so ago that were getting closer to $1M--at that point, there will be the opportunity to buy shares. Wonder how much this Honda will cost when marketed? A few years back the cheapest small jet was about $5M, I believe.

I expected to see them (the $1M jets) proliferate, since there are a lot of $1M "second homes" being built around where I live.

Maintenance and fuel are real bears. I believe they can burn over 150 Gallons per hour.

[dalereed]

" I believe they can burn over 150 Gallons per hour"

If it goes that high they are going to be out of the ball park.

The Eclipse 500 is going to burn about 70 gal/hr.

[snowsislander]

I read of light jets a year or so ago that were getting closer to $1M--at that point, there will be the opportunity to buy shares. Wonder how much this Honda will cost when marketed? A few years back the cheapest small jet was about $5M, I believe.

In the thread last year on the HondaJet, I posted that I found a price of roughly $1 million to $3 million:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1467663/posts#20

but I don't know if that original pricing still holds.

To see that, please follow the Bloomberg link in posting #20, which reads at the end of the piece:

Honda plans to sell the aircraft for between 100 million yen ($899,000) and 300 million yen each, the Asahi newspaper said earlier today, without saying where it obtained the information.

[RetiredSWO]

Maintenance and fuel are real bears. I believe they can burn over 150 Gallons per hour.

Actually over 400 kts at only 150 gals is pretty good.
Maintenance costs will decrease if more of the jets are sold.
More small businesses will buy them if the price is around $1M
However, the placement of the engines is kinda strange...

I am now trying to figure out how to convince
my better half we have to have one