Embraer Legacy 500 Gets Thumbs Up from Brazil’s ANAC
Company expects to obtain approval for its clean-sheet, fly-by-wire midsize business jet from the FAA “in the upcoming weeks.”
Celebrating ANAC certification of the Legacy 500 are (left to right) Embraer CEO Marco Tulio Pellegrini, Mauro Kern, Embraer executive v-p of technology and engineering, and ANAC officials Dino Ishikura and Marcelo Pacheco dos Guaranys.
Celebrating ANAC certification of the Legacy 500 are (left to right) Embraer CEO Marco Tulio Pellegrini, Mauro Kern, Embraer executive v-p of technology and engineering, and ANAC officials Dino Ishikura and Marcelo Pacheco dos Guaranys.

The Embraer Legacy 500 received type certification from Brazil’s civil aviation agency, Agência Nacional de Aviação Civil (ANAC), this afternoon during a ceremony at LABACE 2014 in São Paulo, Brazil. The company expects to obtain FAA approval for its clean-sheet, fly-by-wire midsize business jet “in the upcoming weeks” and from EASA “thereafter.”