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INDUSTRY

E-JET E

CERTIFIED

Embraer’s renowned regional jet family begins new cycle with

improvements that go beyond remotorization

BY  EDMUNDO UBIRATAN, FROM SÃO JOSÉ DOS CAMPOS

A

ter ive years from announc-

ing the development of the

E-Jet E2 family, a second

generation of Embraer’s

renowned regional aircrat

family, the Brazilian manufacturer has

obtained the triple certiication of the

E190-E2 on the last day February 28, from

ANAC, FAA and EASA. he program

lasted only four and a half years – with

nearly 45,000 hours of bench tests and four

prototypes lying more than 2,000 hours

• a time considered very favorable in the
  aeronautical sector. However, contrarily
  to programs such as the A320neo and the
  737MAX, which basically give priority to
  the remotorization of previous versions,
  with isolated changes in the project, Em-

braer has developed a full modernization,

as compared with the irst generation of the

E190. Nearly 75% of the aircrat systems are

new, which makes the E2 a genuine second

generation. he E190-E2 maintains the

same passenger capacity of the irst gen-

eration (between 100 and 114 occupants),

but it brings about a series of technological

innovations. At the ceremony of homologa-

tion announcement, Paulo Cesar de Souza

e Silva, Embraer’s new chairman and CEO,

remembered the program launch in 2013,

and emphasized the technological advance

of the new aircrat. “We have improved the

originally speciied objectives in various

important points such as fuel consumption,

performance, noise and maintenance costs”,

pointed out Paulo Cesar de Souza.