Flight test campaign of the executive jet progresses

São José dos Campos, December 21, 2007 – The third Phenom 100 jet took its first flight, today, from the test runway at the Embraer’s Gavião Peixoto facility, outstate São Paulo, Brazil, and will join the aircraft flight test campaign, performing interior function and reliability tests.

This jet, the first to be completed in the newlyinaugurated hangar at the same site, will be outfitted with the interior designed in partnership with BMW DesignworksUSA. The fourth aircraft is in the final assembly stage and will be used in
the Phenom 100 maturity campaign.

“The Phenom 100 flight test campaign has accrued over 250 hours on more than 260 flights,” said Henrique Langenegger, Embraer Vice President, Programs - Executive Jets. “The aircraft dispatch reliability has been excellent, showing that all investments made in product maturity were worthwhile.”

The tests now include three Phenom 100 jets, which have recently completed performance, flying qualities, flutter, water ingestion, and artificial ice tests.  With the steady pace of the Phenom program, the fuselage of the first Phenom 300 is now ready.  The first pair of Pratt & Whitney Canada PW535E engines has arrived at Embraer for installation on the jet, once the wing-fuselage mating occurs. Final assembly of the Phenom 300 will take place in the new Phenom production hangar at the Gavião Peixoto facility.

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