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JET COMPARISON
EMBRAER LEGACY 500
EMBRAER PRAETOR 600
Jet Comparison: Embraer Praetor 600 vs Embraer Legacy 500 How does Embraer’s newly-certified Praetor 600 compare with the Legacy 500? What are the advantages offered by each model and which particular market niche(s) do they fill? Mike Chase analyses their performance side-by-side… ver the following pages, we’ll consider key productivity parameters for the Embraer Praetor 600 and Legacy 500 (including payload, range, speed and cabin size), to establish which operator needs these aircraft are designed to meet. How much of a performance enhancement does the Praetor 600 offer over its predecessor? Embraer has spoken much over the past few years about ‘Disruptive Technology’. What exactly does it mean by this, and does its new Praetor aircraft represent disruptive technology within the Business Aviation sector? We’ll keep these questions in mind. Specifically, disruptive technology is defined as “the process in which a smaller company, usually with fewer resources, challenges an established business by entering at the bottom of the market and continuing to move up-market with technological innovations that disrupt the status quo.”
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52 Vol 25 Issue 2 2021 AVBUYER MAGAZINE
Embraer Praetor 600
Through its Praetor 500 and 600 models, Embraer introduced improved variants of its Legacy 450 and 500 models, respectively. The Praetor 600 was subsequently certified by the FAA and EASA in 2019. Based on the Legacy 500, the $20.995m Praetor 600 has two fuel tanks on the fuselage belly allowing 2,928lbs additional fuel capacity. It also utilizes more powerful 7,528lbst Honeywell HTF7500E engines, while a much longer wingspan combines to offer an NBAA IFR range of 4,018nm (carrying four passengers and available fuel) – making it competitive with the Cessna Citation Longitude and Gulfstream G280 Super Mid-Size Jets. The Praetor 600 began deliveries in H2 2019, and there were 24 wholly-owned Praetor 600s in operation at the time of writing, with none yet in shared or fractional ownership. However, Embraer has received a $1.4bn order from fractional provider Flexjet LLC that includes Praetor 600 jets. www.AVBUYER.com
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