Embraer Set To Pick More Suppliers for New E-Jets
Embraer Commercial Aviation COO Luis Carlos Affonso.
Embraer Commercial Aviation COO Luis Carlos Affonso.

Embraer expects to reveal its choice of several major systems contractors for its new second-generation E-Jets over the next three or four months, Embraer Commercial Aviation COO Luis Carlos Affonso told AIN last week as the company announced it is retaining Honeywell as the supplier for the series’ avionics suite and flight management computer. Further contract awards over the next few months will likely go to suppliers of the airplanes’ fly-by-wire system, APU electric system and air management system. “Others will be selected a little down the road,” said Affonso, who noted that the design does not call for the use of a lithium-ion main ship battery.