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NEWS DIGITAL

EMBRAER BOOSTS PHENOM

MAINTENANCE TO 800 FLIGHT

HOURS

Embraer has announced
a revision to the Scheduled
Maintenance Requirements
(SMR) for the Phenom family of
jets.
The revision extends the in-
tervals between stops from 600
flight hours and/or 12 months
and multiples to 800 flight hours
or 12 months and multiples.
Most of the tasks with double
intervals were also optimized to
the longest period.
This is a 33% maintenance
interval improvement,
which is almost double the
industry average. To Phenom
series customers, this significant
improvement equates to less
downtime, lower maintenance
costs, a long economic life, and
more time in the air.
The improvement was
only made possible by the
performance of the Phenom fleet
over the last decade. More than
one year of engineering analysis
confirmed that the customers of
these aircraft can fully benefit
from the high availability of the
fleet for their even better conve-
nience and greater flexibility. more than 1.7 million flight hours and 1.4 business aviation and are based on the
“Conceived as clean-sheet designs to million cycles since the first delivery of the Maintenance Steering Group (MSG-3)
be the best in their respective classes, Phenom 100 in December 2008. Embraer’s methodology. The methodology aims to
the Phenom 100 and 300 series aircraft business jet operators are supported by a preserve and restore the inherent safety
were built for high utilization. Now, eleven proven global services and support orga- and reliability levels of the aircraft and
years after the first delivery, with a fleet of nization and its award-winning network to build a knowledge base for design and
over 900 jets in operation, our customer of more than 70 owned and authorized maintenance improvement. The main
support and engineering team can reaffirm, service centers, complemented by a 24/7 benefits of this methodology include
once again, that our products are even Contact Center at its headquarters in Brazil. higher aircraft availability and overall cost
better than the initial specification,” The Scheduled Maintenance reduction to keep the aircraft in ideal
said Johann C. Bordais, President & CEO, Requirements for the Phenom jets were operating conditions. Q
Embraer Services & Support. developed to meet the specific needs of
The Phenom fleet has accumulated

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