Embraer

Embraer made headlines at the NBAA Convention earlier this month by launching a pair of technologically advanced jets, the Praetor 500 and 600, as it continues to establish itself as a leading manufacturer of business airplanes. The Brazilian company has hired 2,000 workers in the U.S., which has grown to be a major hub of […]

What better way to introduce a pair of disruptive new business airplanes than to create a press conference outside the normal Monday NBAA routine? The Brazilian aircraft builder yesterday brought people together at Orlando Executive airport to hear about the Praetor 500 and 600 super midsize business aircraft soon to be added to the company’s […]

Embraer’s E190-E2 Profit Hunter demonstration airplane, with its distinctive shark livery, attracted a lot of attention at this year’s Farnborough Airshow in England, where the Brazilian company reported taking firm orders and letters of intent for an astounding 300 airplanes valued at $15.3 billion. After its European success, the eye-catching airplane went on a tour […]

A mega deal that some wondered whether it would ever come to fruition is now a done deal. Boeing is taking control of Embraer’s commercial jetliner business, agreeing on Thursday to pay $3.8 billion for a larger slice of the global plane making pie that puts the world’s biggest plane makers on a collision course […]

Uber is holding its Uber Elevate Summit this week at the Skirball Center in Los Angeles, where industry leaders are discussing the future of metropolitan air transportation. Two well-established GA manufacturers, Slovenia’s Pipistrel and Brazil’s Embraer, revealed conceptual eVTOL designs at this year’s Summit. Embraer unveiled its eVTOL concept under the company’s subsidiary EmbraerX. While […]

The Prodigy Flight Deck in the cockpits of Embraer’s Phenom 100 and Phenom 300 are getting an upgrade with Garmin’s latest G1000 NXi system. This is not a simple software upgrade; NXi provides a significant upgrade to an already stellar package, adding visual approach capabilities (which can be coupled with the autopilot); SurfaceWatch (a runway […]

With the NBAA’s 2017 Business Aviation Conference and Exhibition set to begin on Tuesday, Embraer Executive Jets unveiled the Phenom 300E, the next step in the evolution of its best-selling light bizjet. The original Phenom 300 was introduced to the market in 2009, and since 2013 Embraer has delivered more than 400 aircraft to more […]

Embraer Executive Jets delivered the first Phenom 100EV to an undisclosed U.S. customer. Announced last year at EAA AirVenture, the new model is an upgraded Phenom 100 with Prodigy Touch avionics based in the Garmin G3000 system and more powerful Pratt & Whitney Canada PW617F1-E engines. The 100EV’s new engines, boasting 1,730 pounds of thrust […]

Embraer says it is forming “innovation teams” in Silicon Valley and in Boston to explore business collaborations with tech startups, investors, academia and corporations, as it looks to develop its next generation of airliners, business jets and perhaps new types of aircraft that we can only guess at. As part of the push to boost […]

Embraer has turned to the financial sector for a leader to head its Executive Jets business unit, hiring Michael Amalfitano as president and CEO to succeed Marco Tulio Pellegrini, who will assume another leadership position within Embraer “to be announced soon.” Amalfitano has no prior aviation OEM experience but spent his 35-year career in business […]