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- May 23, 201690% CONFIDENCEfrom the source
Embraer E190-E2 Makes First Flight, Months Ahead of Schedule
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The first E190-E2 took off from São José dos Campos at 1:06 p.m. on 23 May 2016 for a 3 h 20 min flight to Mach 0.82 and 41,000 ft, starting the certification campaign for the E2 family.
- AirlineGeeks reports the E190-E2 took off at 1:06 p.m. and flew three hours and twenty minutes, with captain Mozart Louzada and first officer Gerson de Oliveira Mendes at the controls[1][5]
- AIN says the crew retracted the gear, flew to the maximum altitude of 41,000 ft and top cruise speed of Mach 0.82 and engaged the new fly-by-wire in normal mode; the track ran about 150 miles east toward Rio de Janeiro[5]
- The flight came at least five weeks earlier than the second-half 2016 schedule Embraer had last reported (AIN); CAPA noted it started the certification campaign and entry into service remained scheduled for 2018[4][5]
- It was the first of four E190-E2 prototypes; two more aircraft would serve the E195-E2 campaign and three the E175-E2, with 640 commitments by then[1][6]
Notable features
- E190-E2: length 36.25 m, wingspan 33.72 m, height 10.96 m, maximum 114 seats; Embraer's rollout release gave 97 seats in two classes or 106 in one[2][6]
- Two Pratt & Whitney PW1900G geared turbofans (85-102 kN); MTOW 56,400 kg; cruise Mach 0.78; range 2,950 nmi (Embraer quoted 2,800 nm at rollout)[2][6]
- 4th-generation full fly-by-wire, new wing and landing gear; Embraer said 75 percent of systems are new versus the first-generation E190[1][3]
Translations completed using Gemini 3.8 Flash.
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