A Jet Family for All Hemispheres

Following certification from ANAC (Brazil), the FAA (USA), and EASA (Europe), Embraer’s robustly successful E2 family of narrow-body commercial jets, the E195-E2 and E190-E2, has received Type Certification from Transport Canada Civil Aviation (TCCA).

North American launch customer Porter Airlines, a Toronto-based regional airline operating regularly-scheduled flights between Toronto and locations in Canada and the United States, will presently take delivery of the first of fifty E195-E2 jets with which the carrier plans to dramatically expand its extant fleet of 29 De Havilland Canada Q400 turboprops. The delivery ceremony will be held at Embraer’s headquarters in São José dos Campos, Brazil.

In all, Porter Airlines’ orders for Embraer’s E195-E2 airliners number one-hundred: fifty firm commitments and rights to an additional fifty aircraft. In 2021, Porter ordered thirty specimens of the efficient, technologically advanced jet with options for another fifty. The deal, with all options exercised, was valued at  $5.82-billion. In 2022, the Canadian carrier placed a firm order—valued at $1.56-billion—for a further twenty E195-E2 aircraft.

Embraer’s E-Jet family is a series of four-abreast, narrow-body, short to medium-range, twin-engine, jet airliners. The design’s commercial success derives largely of its ability to efficiently serve lower-density routes while offering many of the same amenities and features of larger commercial aircraft.

The E-Jet family comprises two series: the smaller, base-model E170 and E175 jets, and the stretched E190 and E195 aircraft. The E170 and E175 share 95% commonality, as do the E190 and E195; the two families share near 89% commonality, as evinced by their identical fuselage cross-sections and avionics.

To the subject of powerplants, the E170 and E175 are powered by General Electric’s 14,200-lbf CF34-8E turbofan engine, while the stretched E190 and E195 make use of the 20,000-lbf General Electric CF34-10E mill. The noise-signatures and emissions of both engines exceed the requirements established by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). Ergo, E-Jet operators retain the ability to service noise-sensitive airports such as London City (LCY), Teterboro (TEB), John Wayne (SNA), Santa Monica (SMO), and Naples, Florida (APF).

To date, Embraer has logged orders for north of 1,900 E-Jets from more than one-hundred customers. Presently, no fewer than eighty airlines operate Embraer E-Jets.

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