The Phenom 100 has an oval fuselage with a 7.985 m³ passenger cabin, a 1.47 m-high by 0.74 m-wide door and 1.2'x1' windows. Its unpressurized cargo hold is 1.56 m³. Its structural life is 28,000 flight cycles or 35,000 hours, and it is built of 20% composite materials. It has capacity for four passengers in its normal configuration, but it can carry up to seven passengers with a single crew, with an optional side-facing seat and belted toilet. The cabin interior is designed by BMW DesignworksUSA. The aircraft is fitted with two rear-mounted Pratt & Whitney Canada PW617-F turbofan engines rated at a takeoff thrust of 7.2 kN to ISA+10 °C. The engines have dual full authority digital engine control. An automatic performance reserve feature boosts engine output to 1,777 lb in the event of engine failure on takeoff. Later model PW 617 F-E models have a ten-minute thrust rating at 1,820 lb. It has a maximum flying range of with four occupants and NBAA IFR Reserves.
Development
In April 2005 Embraer's board of directors approved the development of very light and light jets. On November 9, the company announced at the annual NBAA convention that the very light jet would be called the Phenom 100, and displayed a full-scale mock-up of the aircraft. The aircraft first flew on July 26, 2007 at São José dos Campos, Brazil. It was awarded a type certificate from Brazil's National Civil Aviation Authority on December 9, 2008 The first aircraft was delivered on December 24, 2008.
The aircraft is operated by private individuals, companies, fractionals, charter operators, aircraft management companies, and military operators. Its 2009 price was US$ 3.6 million, and US$4.16 million in 2015. A Phenom 100 may cost around /mile to operate.
Military
Brazilian Air Force - two aircraft delivered in October 2019 and designated U-100.
Embraer was originally planning to deliver 15 Phenom 100s in 2008 and 120–150 aircraft in 2009 but it ended up delivering only two aircraft in 2008 and had to trim its 2009 plan to 97 aircraft. Embraer had about 30 orders in late 2014. All Phenom assembly was to be shifted to the Melbourne, Florida line from July 2016. The facility will be able to assemble up to 96 Phenoms and 72 Embraer Legacy 450/Embraer Legacy 500 annually. More than 170 Phenom jets have been produced at the site until June 2016, mainly for the US market. The company had two production lines for the Phenom 100EV, the other in Brazil. Brazilian production was replaced by the Melbourne line.
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Incidents and accidents
The Phenom 100 was involved in five Hull-loss accidents causing three fatalities.
December 8, 2014: An Embraer Phenom 100 with tail number N100EQ crashed into a suburban home in Gaithersburg, Maryland, while on approach to runway at Montgomery County Airpark. Six people were killed, three in the plane, three in the home on the ground. The National Transportation Safety Board report said “had the ice protection been activated the pilot would have received an aural warning of impending stall about 20 seconds earlier.” The NTSB report stated "Safety issues relate to the need for a system that provides automatic alerting when ice protection systems should be activated on turbofan airplanes that require a type rating and are certified for single-pilot operations and flight in icing conditions, such as the EMB-500; and the need for training for pilots of these airplanes beyond what is required to pass a check ride".
