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F1: Jenson Button buys two $3.5m jets for new business

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Khatir Soltani
By GMM

British formula one driver Jenson Button is starting an aviation charter business.

The Japanese manufacturer Honda, for whom the 28-year-old races revealed on Tuesday that Button is to be the first European buyer of its light business jet.

Honda said Button has ordered two of the twin-engine HondaJets, which reportedly come with a price-tag of $3.65m apiece.

They will apparently be delivered to European customers in 2012.
Khatir Soltani
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