Aircraft
Embraer Phenom 100 earns its license to fly
Christmas came early for Embraer.

Christmas came early for Embraer. The Brazilian manufacturer’s first clean-sheet business aircraft, the Phenom 100 light jet, was certified on December 9 by the Agência Nacional de Aviação Civil of Brazil and three days later by the FAA, bringing Embraer a step closer to its goal of becoming “a major player” in the business aviation market.

The announcement came a little more than three years after the program launch and 18 months after the first flight. Certification had originally been expected in the spring of last year but was delayed by compliance issues related primarily to the anti-icing system and flap actuation software.