Embraer’s Services and Support division n has completed the first conversion of a Legacy 450 to a Praetor 500 for an undisclosed customer. The midsize jet conversion was performed at Embraer’s Executive Jet Service Center at Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks, Connecticut.
The first and currently only midsize Embraer Legacy 450 in Europe was approved for operations at Saint-Tropez’s La Mole Airport last month, joining the Cessna Citation Latitude as the largest jet able to operate there.
Designers attempt to give exceptional capabilities in all areas, including price, but the laws of physics, thermodynamics and aerodynamics do not allow one aircraft to do all missions with equal efficiency. Trade offs are a reality of aircraft design.
These graphs are designed to illustrate the performance of the Embraer Legacy 450 under a variety of range, payload, speed and density altitude conditions. Do not use these data for flight planning purposes because they are gross approximations of actual aircraft performance.
In the entry-level super-midsize category, is the Legacy 450 better value than the Citation Latitude? Digging deeper into design details, performance numbers and everyday capabilities can provide some answers.
