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Embraer Aircraft Deliveries Increase by 33% Year on Year

Aerotime reports, “Embraer has reported strong increases in aircraft deliveries in its latest quarter results, with its Executive Jets segment performing particularly well. On October 18, 2024, the Brazilian planemaker announced that its overall aircraft deliveries had risen by 33% year on year, or by 24% when compared to the same quarterly period in 2023.”
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Embraer E190F Freighter Variant Earns FAA Certification

Simple Flying reports, “Embraer has announced that its E190F passenger-to-freighter (P2F) has been fully certified by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The Brazilian planemaker launched its P2F program – which also includes the E195 – in May 2022, with the E190F completing its first flight in April of this year. The company revealed that the E190F received full FAA certification last month following its certification by the National Civil Aviation Agency of Brazil (ANAC) in July.”
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Embraer Shares More Details About its New Autonomous Takeoff System

Simple Flying reports, “During the Farnborough Airshow earlier this year, Embraer introduced a new takeoff system it calls E2TS, which stands for Embraer Enhanced Takeoff System. It’s a world-first automated takeoff system, which will see the pilots not rotating the aircraft off the runway. … At a media briefing last week, Embraer revealed more details about the E2TS system and how it works, as well as its potential to influence the wider aviation industry, not just the E2 family of aircraft.”
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Embraer Executive Jets Announces Doubling of its MRO Network

Aviation International News reports that Embraer Executive Jets “is doubling its maintenance service network in the US from three to six facilities ‘to support the continued growth of its executive jets customer base,’ the company announced today.” The three new factory-owned service centers – “to be based at Dallas Love Field, as well as in Cleveland, Ohio, and Sanford, Florida – are scheduled to open in the second quarter of next year.” Embraer Services and Support Vice President of MRO Services Frank Stevens said, “We are pleased to offer additional service locations for our customers as we will significantly expand the capacity, capability, and footprint of our MRO network in the U.S. Our Executive Jets fleet has been growing rapidly over the last several years as strong demand continues across the entire product portfolio. This expansion will provide immediate additional capacity and ensures that we are poised to care for our valued customers and strategically grow for many years to come.”
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Embraer Posts Strong Delivery Growth for 2023

FlightGlobal reports that Brazilian airframer Embraer “boosted deliveries in 2023 to 181 aircraft, a 13% improvement on the previous year’s figure.” The increase “hinged on a fourth-quarter surge during which 75 aircraft were handed over, according to Embraer.” Still, shipments “in the last three months of the year fell against the same period of 2022 when the Brazilian airframer managed to deliver 80 aircraft.” Fourth-quarter deliveries “comprised 49 business jets, 25 commercial aircraft, and one C-390 tactical transport.” Despite growth in 2023, Embraer “has yet to surpass its 2019 shipment total of 198 aircraft.” The company “says that supply chain delays continued to be a challenge in 2023, affecting deliveries.”
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Embraer’s Phenom 300 Remains Top-Selling Business TwinJet

Aviation International News reports, “Following the release of the 2023 year-end delivery numbers by the General Aviation Manufacturers Association, Embraer announced that for the 12th consecutive year, its Phenom 300 was the best-selling jet in its class, with 63 of the series delivered last year.” The light jet is also “the top-selling twinjet for the fourth year in a row,” and remains the “fastest light jet in production.”
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Embraer Prepares for More Growth in 2024

Aviation International News reports, “Embraer on Friday announced plans to invest $390 million and hire 900 additional employees this year to increase aircraft production and prepare for future growth. The investment includes stepping up research and development activities for electric aircraft, expanding aeronautical services, and boosting industrial activities.”
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Embraer Sees Backlogs Rise in Q3

Aviation Week reports that Embraer “delivered 28 executive aircraft and 15 commercial aircraft during the third quarter (Q3) of 2023, up 30% from 33 total aircraft delivered for the period a year ago.” The Brazil-based manufacturer “delivered 19 light jets and nine midsize jets during the quarter, up 22% from a year ago.”
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Embraer’s Commercial, Business Jet Deliveries Boosted 47% in Q2

Aviation International News reported that Embraer deliveries increased by 47% in Q2, with both executive jets and commercial aircraft shipments recording notable increases. Deliveries for the quarter “ended June 30 reached 62, 38 of which were executive jets and 24 commercial aircraft.” This compares “with a total of 47 delivered in the second quarter of 2022, including 30 executive jets and 17 commercial aircraft.” The increases “threaded throughout Embraer’s product lines: Phenom deliveries were up by six units to 25, Praetors by two to 13, E175s by two to 12, and E195-E2s by five to 12. Phenom 300s accounted for the bulk of the light-jet second-quarter deliveries at 22, while the Praetors were nearly evenly split between the 500 (six shipments) and 600 (seven).” These deliveries brought Embraer’s backlog to $17.3 billion at the end of June, compared with $17.4 billion at the end of March. In Q2, Embraer “scored some significant deals, including from NetJets for up to 250 Praetor 500 jets.” If all options are exercised, the deal “would be valued at more than $5 billion with deliveries beginning in 2025.”
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Embraer CEO Touts Company Future

Aviation International News reported that Embraer CEO Francisco Gomes Neto spoke at Embraer’s Media Day presentation in New York on Friday and “said the company is now reaping the harvest from the investments and changes it made in recent years.” He pointed “to the portfolio of new products the Brazilian manufacturer has introduced over the past decade in its commercial, defense, and private aviation markets.” This portfolio “includes the E-Jets E2, the C-390 Millennium military transport, and, on the private aviation side, the Praetor family and upgrades to its Phenom light jets.” He explained that Embraer currently “employs a staff of 100 engineers committed to developing production efficiencies and cost reduction, which has allowed it to not only maintain margins on its products but even increase them in some cases.” One of the company’s “standing projects is to reduce the production time of its aircraft by 30 percent by the end of 2025.”
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GAMA Reveals Aviation Sector Full-Year Numbers for Deliveries and Billings

FlightGlobal reports that the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) “revealed the sector’s full-year figures for unit deliveries and billings.” The major airframers “boosted their aircraft output in 2022, revenue increases tended to be even greater, indicating some impact from inflation perhaps, but also that manufacturers are better able to maintain their prices.” For example, business jet deliveries increased in number by only two aircraft, but total value of the jets went up 4.5%. The top five manufacturers – Bombardier, Dassault, Embraer, Gulfstream and Textron Aviation – “all saw their unit deliveries and billings rise in 2022.”
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Embraer Increased Deliveries in 2022

Aviation Week reported that Embraer “delivered 102 executive jets during 2022, including 50 in the fourth quarter (Q4), up from 93 in 2021, as sales in the segment continue its momentum, the company says.” Embraer delivered “66 light business jets during the year, including 33 in Q4, and 36 mid-size jets.”
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Embraer Receives US, EU Certification for Phenom 300 Jet

Reuters reports that Brazilian planemaker Embraer SA said Thursday that its Phenom 300 jet has received type certification from U.S. and European regulators to operate as a medical aircraft with an intensive care unit. The supplemental type certifications came from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration and the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), Embraer said in a statement. The company added that U.S.-based on-demand charter operator Grandview Aviation would operate the Phenom 300MED as its launch customer.
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Embraer Sees Record Business Jet Sales in Q2

Aviation International News reported that Embraer President and CEO Francisco Neto said that Embraer’s executive jets division saw record second-quarter sales. Embraer saw a “20 percent reduction in production cycle time for its aircraft this year, indicating improved efficiency,” and “delivered 12 light jets and eight larger jets in the second quarter, for a 54 percent increase from a year ago.”
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Embraer CEO Says New Customers Change Business Jet Market Dynamics

Aviation International News reports that Embraer Executive Jets CEO and President Michael Amalfitano described at Corporate Jet Investor Miami 2021 how the increase in first-time business aviation users is changing the aircraft industry’s dynamics. Amalfitano said, “When you look at that growth at the bottom, the access is growing. You have to start thinking about what are they, what do they want? Who are these people? And you recognize they’re getting younger. We’re talking to millennials, X, Y, Z, and the seeds in terms of generation.”
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L3Harris to Convert Embraer KC-390 Cargo Planes into Aerial Tankers

Defense One reports that, “L3Harris Technologies has entered an agreement with Brazil’s Embraer to convert KC-390 cargo planes into aerial tankers that can refuel U.S. combat planes in flight.” According to L3Harris Chairman and CEO Chris Kubasik, the “goal is to create a tactical tanker that can fly closer to the front lines in a war with a peer competitor and refuel all types of U.S. military planes.”
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Embraer Capitalizes on Business Jet Market

Aviation International News reports that Embraer “is riding the tide of new business jet buyers entering the market.” Embraer Executive Jet President Michael Amalfitano said, “New users are coming into the marketplace, and we are very well positioned with our products because those first-time buyers are coming to buy entry-level light jets and medium-category aircraft; whether they do that in a purchase sense or user sense, the numbers are significantly growing.”
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Brazil’s Embraer Sees Deliveries, Revenue Growing in 2024

Reuters reports that Brazilian planemaker Embraer expects both its aircraft deliveries and revenues to grow in 2024, the company said on Monday. According to the report, “The world’s third-largest planemaker behind Boeing and Airbus estimated it will deliver between 125 and 135 executive jets this year, compared with 115 in 2023.”
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