São Paulo – The Brazilian aircraft manufacturing company Embraer ended 2011 with 105 commercial jets and 99 executive jets delivered, at a total of 204 aircraft, as against 246 in 2010. The company closed the year with a US$ 15.4 billion firm order backlog, according to a statement issued this Wednesday (11th). In 2010, the backlog stood at US$ 15.6 billion.
The delivery of 32 commercial and 50 executive took place in the fourth quarter of 2011. The commercial jets included seven Embraer 175s, eighteen 190s and seven 195s. The executive jets comprised 40 light aircraft models and ten large ones.
The company also has orders for six Embraer 170s, forty-six 175s, a hundred and sixty two 190s and thirty five 195s, at a total of 249 regional commercial aircraft. The company sold 124 jets of the type in 2011, a 28% increase over 2010, according to the statement.
Of the orders placed last year, 45 were made in the last quarter, including 15 by BOC Aviation, based in Singapore, ten by the CIT Group, based in the United States, and another six by Gecas, which is also US-based. All of these are aircraft leasing companies.
Two other orders were placed by China’s Hebei Airlines, which has no 170-190 family jets in its fleet. Brazil’s Azul ordered 11 units and the US-based Jetscape ordered one.
In December, the Brazilian company completed the sale of 13 Legacy 650 executive jets to Minsheng Financial Leasing, based in China, and delivered the first small Phenom 100 executive jet manufactured in its Melbourne, USA plant to Executive AirShare.
Also in the final days of 2011, the United States Air Force announced that Embraer won a US$ 350 million tender to supply 20 Supertucano model aircraft. The signing of the contract, however, was suspended because another bidding company questioned the tender’s result.
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
