Embraer S.A., the multinational aerospace manufacturer of commercial, military, executive, and agricultural aircraft founded in 1969 and headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil, has made public its Q2 2023 earnings report. Compared to 2022’s second-quarter, the deliveries of the Brazilian air-framer’s aircraft increased by a tremendous 47-percent. Moreover, the company’s backlog of firm orders reached a handsome $17.3-billion (USD).
A report newly set forth by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT)—a Washington D.C.-based independent nonprofit providing technical and scientific analysis to environmental regulators—impugns the commercial applications of fuel-cell powered turboprop aircraft. The ICCT contends hydrogen-electric fuel-cell-powered ATR and De Havilland Canada turboprops—specifically, ATR’s 72-600 and Bombardier’s (nee De Havilland’s) Dash-8 Q400—could have sufficient range to service most turboprop routes, but only when carrying many fewer passengers than the aircrafts’ respective design capacities.
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