number of parts capable of obstructing airflow. It also uses an entirely carbon composite fuselage, which both reduces aircraft weight and allows for improved airflow over the fuselage. In recognition of these accomplishments, Honda Aircraft Company received several awards, such as the AIAA Foundation Award for Excellence in 2018 and the Flying Innovation Award from Flying Magazine in 2017. After Honda decided to commercialize the HondaJet program, Fujino was tasked with transforming his small research team of thirty engineers into a large-scale company capable of aircraft manufacture and providing long-term customer support. Fujino searched for employees from across the world, eventually creating an international, multi-lingual staff. Between 2006 and 2015, Honda Motors invested over $200 million to expand the Honda Aircraft Company facilities from a single hangar to an over 133-acre campus consisting of an R&D center, manufacturing plant, customer service center, and office headquarters. As of 2020, the company has delivered over 150 of their aircraft to customers in over 40 countries. Honda Aircraft Company and its CEO Michimasa Fujino served as a case study for Harvard Business School professor Gary Pisano, who in his 2019 book Creative Construction classifies Honda Aircraft as an example of start-up like behavior within a large, established corporation. In 2015, the Honda Aircraft Company received type certification for its first aircraft, the HondaJet. The first delivery occurred on December 23, 2015. In 2018, the company introduced the HondaJet Elite, which featured upgraded avionics, increased range, and an optional galley. That same year, Honda Aircraft Company began offering the HondaJet APMG to existing HondaJet customers, which provided many of the upgrades seen in the HondaJet Elite. In May 2021, the company announced the HondaJet Elite S, which improved on the Elite’s avionics system, maximum takeoff weight, and range. After receiving FAA type-certification in 2015, over the next few years Honda Aircraft Company expanded its sales operations to many other countries. In 2018, Honda Aircraft Company began partnering with other companies to provide aircraft for charter. On May 20, 2019, Honda Aircraft Company announced that they were building a new 15.5 million dollar facility in Greensboro N.C., which was completed in September 2020. In October 2021, Honda Aircraft announced a new aircraft concept, the HondaJet 2600 Concept, at the 2021 NBAA Convention in Las Vegas. This concept design uses many of the elements of the original HondaJet, such as the over-wing engine placement, but features