Embraer closes in on Praetor 600 certification

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Certification testing of the super-midsize business jet was completed on 11 March, says the Brazilian airframer, with three aircraft – two prototypes and a production-conforming example – logging 440h across 372 flights at Embraer's Gaviao Peixoto test base.

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A maturity campaign – designed to ease the jet's entry into service – is now under way, and the production-conforming aircraft has so far accumulated around 30h of an expected 50h of flying, says Embraer.

The $21 million Praetor 600 was launched in October 2018 along with the smaller Praetor 500, which has logged 30h of flight testing in 18 sorties. Certification and service entry of the $17 million midsize aircraft are due in the third quarter.

Powered by Honeywell HTF7500E turbofans, the Praetors are derivatives of the Legacy 450 and 500 with which they share the same fuselage and wings, supplied by the company's metal and composites manufacturing facility in Evora, Portugal.

Improving on the capabilities of the Legacy 500, the Praetor 600 gains new winglets and two extra belly fuel tanks, while engine thrust has been increased by 500lb (2.2kN), taking range to 3,900nm (7,200km). That is 760nm more than the Legacy 500, and almost 300nm longer than its closest super-midsize competitor, the Gulfstream G280.

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