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Honda Aircraft Expands Service Network
By: Jerry Siebenmark
Caption: Honda Aircraft has appointed four companies in the U.S., UK, and Malaysia as authorized service centers.
Word Count: 170
Honda Aircraft announced today the appointment of four authorized service centers (ASCs), bringing the company’s network to 12 such centers. The news also comes as the HondaJet fleet tops 219 operating aircraft and 120,000 flight hours.

Two of the four new ASCs—Hillsboro Aviation based at Portland-Hillsboro Airport in Oregon and Mather Aviation at Mather Airport in Sacramento, California—increase Honda Aircraft’s number of ASCs and factory service centers in North America to 12. The other two are Dviation Technics in Selangor, Malaysia—the exclusive ASC for southeast Asia—and Signature TechnicAir at Bournemouth Airport in the UK, which doubles the OEM’s ASCs in Europe.

“As the HondaJet fleet continues to grow, we are committed to ensuring that each of our customers around the globe receives the highest quality of service and support, with the supply of parts and factory-trained and certified service technicians available at each of the 21 locations,” said Honda Aircraft head of commercial business unit and v-p of customer service Amod Kelkar.