All-New Light-Jet Set to Impress
Embraer S.A., the multinational aerospace manufacturer of commercial, military, executive, and agricultural aircraft founded in 1969 and headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil, has unveiled the Phenom 100EX, the latest evolution of company’s capable and popular Phenom 100 series of entry-level business jets.
Embraer Executive Jets president and CEO Michael Amalfitano stated: "We are proud to announce the Phenom 100EX—an aircraft designed to experience excellence with superior comfort and disruptive technology that enhances safety. This product reimagines the entry-level flight experience, offering enhanced comfort, empowering pilots, and enriching journeys to deliver more value to our customers."
The $5-million (approximately) Phenom 100EX is powered by a pair of 1,730-lbf-thrust Pratt & Whitney twin-spool, reverse-flow-combustor, dual-channel FADEC-controlled PW617F1-E engines which motivate the little jet to a Vne of Mach 0.70, a high-speed cruise of 406-knots (Mach 0.60), and a service-ceiling of FL410.
Certified for single-pilot operation, the Phenom 100EX’s cabin can be configured to seat as many as seven passengers; the machine’s standard cabin configuration, however, accommodates five.
To the subject of range, the Phenom 100EX has a four-occupant (occupant, not passenger) range of 1,178 nautical miles with NBAA IFR reserves.
Phenom 100EX pilots will enjoy the jet’s open-concept cockpit and superior legroom—the latter facilitated by extended seat tracking. Pilots are to be aided in their work by Embraer’s Garmin 3000-based Prodigy Touch avionics suite featuring a Runway Overrun Awareness and Alerting System (ROAAS) by which aviators are afforded comprehensive understanding of anticipated landing conditions.
Additional technologies innate to Embraer’s Phenom 100EX include Garmin's FlightStream 510 connectivity solution, 3D volumetric scanning with lightning and hail prediction, predictive windshear, stabilized approach, and turbulence detection.
Embraer’s engineers managed to shave 190-pounds of weight from the Phenom 100EX’s interior (compared to the model’s legacy Phenom 100 stablemates) while increasing cabin-space to class-leading height and width dimensions. Passenger comfort is further enhanced by widened seats, and abundant natural light come streaming in through extra-large windows
Cabin appointments include a fifth baseline side-facing seat, a belted lavatory, flush-to-the-wall tables, and upper tech panels featuring cabin controls.
By dint of more sustainable materials, the Phenom 100EX delivers "superior cabin comfort, operational versatility and safety enhanced pilot-centric avionics;” so states Embraer.
Long on ramp-appeal, the Phenom 100EX impresses with clean, sleek lines; very moderately swept, dual-fenced, sans-winglet wings; a proper “T”-tail empennage; and the largest air-stair door in its class.
Phenom 100EX SICs and line-service personnel servicing the aircraft will appreciate the roomiest, most accessible baggage compartment in the light-jet segment.
An inheritor of the Phenom 100 family’s reputation for high utilization and low maintenance costs, the 100EX is among the world’s most environmentally-friendly dual-engine jets.
Embraer’s Phenom 100EX is certified by the FAA, EASA, and ANAC. Deliveries of the aircraft are slated to commence in December 2023.
Those desirous of catching the earliest possible glimpse of Embraer’s all-new Phenom 100EX are encouraged to make tracks for Las Vegas, where the model will debut at 2023’s NBAA-BACE, which spans 17 through 19 October.
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