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CPI Aerostructures (Chalet C4) has won a long-term contract to supply noise-attenuating engine inlets for the new HondaJet Elite business jet. The inlets are a key feature of the upgraded jet, which Honda Aircraft unveiled in May at the European Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition in Geneva. They promise a quieter ride by reducing high-frequency noise, according to CPI.

 


CPI Aero delivered the first inlets to Honda in March. The Edgewood, New Jersey-based company, which has been supplying inlet assemblies for HondaJets since 2011, worked with Honda to learn new bonding processes for making the inlets. CPI Aero added an environmentally-controlled bonding room, computer-controlled ovens, and other specialized equipment to its production plant in order to do the work in-house.

 


“The ability to support customers’ evolving manufacturing processes with advanced expertise founded in almost 40 years of aerospace manufacturing is a hallmark of CPI Aero and is now on display on an aircraft that has set a new standard in aviation,” CPI Aero president and CEO Douglas McCrosson said.

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