HondaJet With Stormy Past To Hit The Market

The HondaJet formerly owned by Michael Avenatti, who was convicted of defrauding ex-client Stormy Daniels, will be returning to the market, five years after federal agents seized it.

Registered as N227WP, the light jet was auctioned off by the government late last year and purchased by a partnership that intended to share it for its own use. According to San Francisco-based aircraft brokerage Global Elite Aviation—which specializes in HondaJets and is handling the sale of this particular airplane—it was decided to put the twinjet on the market after one of the partners bowed out and the remaining owners couldn’t justify full ownership with their low annual usage.

Notably, N227WP has less than 400 total hours total time and has not flown since 2019. However Threshold Aviation, the FBO at California’s Chino Airport (KCNO) where it was stored, ran its engines every month.

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Global Elite founder and president Michelle Hoover told BJT that the twinjet is currently being prepared for a cross-country ferry flight to the Honda Aircraft plant at Piedmont Triad International Airport (KGSP) in Greensboro, North Carolina, where it will undergo any maintenance needed to render it airworthy again. After a half-decade of inactivity, Hoover noted that it required three new tires before its return to flight.

N227WP is expected to be available for purchase by mid-May.