The EMB 145: Regional Jet or Turboprop Sans Props?
The Embraer EMB-145 was originally conceived in early 1989 as a 45-passenger, stretched Brasilia designed to meet the growth needs of the American Eagle carriers in the mid-1990s. 20 AMR Eagle took 50 options on the 50-passenger Saab 2000 high-speed turboprop, and that was ostensibly the end of that...
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