General Electric lands in Burlington the week of HondaJet safety push

General Electric’s sole HondaJet, N120GE, flew from the Transportation Research Center of Ohio to Burlington, Vermont on June 5, a 1-hour 33-minute hop that landed at Patrick Leahy Burlington International Airport. The light jet, a modest choice for a global conglomerate, usually sticks to the Cincinnati home base and a handful of business hubs.

The same week, the HondaJet Owners & Pilots Association released a new training program aimed at preventing runway excursions, a persistent problem for the type. According to [ainonline.com](https://backend.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/2025-04-21/hondajet-pilots-association-presents-excursion-solution), there have been 21 HondaJet runway excursions, with the most recent in April 2025. General Electric’s flight pattern—which in recent days included stops in Ohio, Alabama, and Vermont—doesn’t obviously align with a GE Aerospace facility, but the safety push makes any HondaJet trip noteworthy.

GE’s relationship with Honda runs deep: the two companies formed a joint venture, GE Honda Aero Engines, in 2004 to develop small jet engines ([global.honda.com](https://global.honda/en/newsroom/news/2004/c041013b-eng.html)). While the Burlington visit may simply be a routine business meeting, the broader context of HondaJet safety concerns lends the flight a quiet significance.