Aircraft
Legacy 500 To Fly By Year End
Work is progressing on Embraer’s newest offering, the midsize Legacy 500, and the Brazilian airframer says it is on schedule to fly the $18.4 million twinj

Work is progressing on Embraer’s newest offering, the midsize Legacy 500, and the Brazilian airframer says it is on schedule to fly the $18.4 million twinjet by year-end. Designed to fill the gap in the manufacturer’s lineup between the $8 million light Phenom 300 and the large-cabin $25- to $29 million Legacy 600/650, the Legacy 500 and its slightly smaller sibling, the Legacy 450, were announced as concepts at NBAA in 2007, and the pair of jets was formally launched half a year later.

At a pre-NBAA tour at the company’s São José dos Campos headquarters near the end of August, Embraer showed off the fuselage of the first prototype of the midsize jet, which was about to receive its wings. In a nearby hangar, the type’s second prototype had just completed the mating of its three fuselage sections.

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