HondaJet hiring at NC plant ahead of estimates

GREENSBORO — Hiring has already surpassed original estimates at the Honda Aircraft Co. plant in North Carolina where a new $4 million business jet will be manufactured.

The News & Record of Greensboro reported Friday that Honda spokesman Stephen Keeney said the company now employs about 400 people at the plant. The company expects to employ more than 500 workers when it starts delivering planes at the end of next year.

The company already has hired more workers than it projected at its design and manufacturing facility at Piedmont Triad International Airport.

Keeney said the company could more than double the 350 jobs it originally estimated because of demand for the small jet, which has engines mounted on its wings. He said the company already has orders for more than 100 of the planes.

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