Oshkosh 2005: The Jets Finally Arrive

Volume 35
Number 9
September 2005

Thus far, very light jets have been mainly marketing puffery. This year, four actually arrived, including a surprise visit from Honda.

HondaJet made a surprise appearance.

If Oshkosh 2002 proved to be the year of the very light jet, OSH 2005 was the year the jets actually showed up, one right on time, one late and one few of us were sure even existed. You could poke your nose into the cabins and size up the things instead of numbly filing through a mock-up equipped with dummy avionics.

Many eyes fell on the Eclipse 500, a jet project launched and pursued with such unparalleled hyperbole that we wondered if the real thing could ever measure up, but the airplane certainly drew plenty of attention. It might have drawn more if its triumphant first-ever arrival at OSH hadn’t…

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