Embraer E190-E2 Sailing Through Detailed Design
Latest phase of development to last into third quarter of 2015.
Embraer expects its E190-E2 to enter service before July 2018. (Image: Embraer)
Embraer expects its E190-E2 to enter service before July 2018. (Image: Embraer)

Embraer has finished roughly half of its series of critical design reviews (CDRs) for the new E190-E2, and as of early September had released drawings for major parts of the airplane’s all-new wings. Scheduled for entry into service before the end of the first half of 2018, the 106-seat jet cruised through its joint definition phase in late May, by which time Embraer had chosen all suppliers. By the end of the year, the company expects to complete its CDRs and cut the airplane’s first metal at one of its two “centers of excellence” in Evora, Portugal, ahead of the start of final assembly around the end of 2015 and first flight in 2016.