Aviation
Commercial /
Brazil
New turboprop
Embraer aircraft will focus on the 70 to 100 seat market
Brasilhão
Embraer
Reprodução/Embraer
Rafael Ramos
3/18/2021
According to the executive president of Embraer, the company will have a new turboprop commercial airplane on the list of priorities. The plane already has its advanced studies.
Francisco Gomes Neto also said that he expects new partnerships, be they commercial or financial for the project for the third quarter of the year 2022.
Brasilhão
Embraer
Reprodução/Embraer
Although hybrid propulsion has been studied in partnership with the FAB, conventional propulsion is preferred due to the maturity of alternative technologies, according to Gomes Neto. This contradicts the idea of "u200b"u200bthe hybrid propulsion shown by some concepts from Embraer.
The new turboprop has not yet been given for the first test flight or launch, but it should focus on the 70 to 100 seat market.
The turboprop aircraft market is relatively large and draws attention to Embraer.
Brasilhão
Embraer
Reprodução/Embraer
On social networks, Embraer showed images of a passenger turboprop and invited Internet users to listen to the Air Fianance podcast. The plane has 21 windows, size very similar to the ATR72, with low wing and T-tail, format used in Brasilia.
A new airplane in this category needs to offer performance and efficiency, in order to convince companies to exchange their old planes for this one, which received the project name Brasilhão.
“We are planning a large turboprop, bigger than any other product currently available. We are talking about a capacity between 70 and 100 seats. It will be significantly more economical. We think of operating costs between 15% and 20% lower compared to the aircraft that is a reference in the market today ”, said the VP of marketing for Embraer.
The project demands a high cost, as it focuses on efficiency in a serious way, so it should not be ready until the end of this decade.
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Rafael Ramos
Aviation enthusiast from an early age, he had his first contacts with the area developing that good old habit of spending dozens of hours in front of the screens of Micrsoft Flight Simulator and other simulators. With a solid background in various technological areas, including engineering and chemistry, Rafael has rejoined aviation as editor and author of articles and materials on our portal, providing invaluable help to the dynamics and expansion of the website and the aeronautical community, bringing us the news and updates so indispensable for us to remain current in our area of operation.
   
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