Button buys two $3.5m jets for new business

HondaJet

(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.