The EMBRAER Legacy is a business jet version of the EMBRAER ERJ 135. The jet itself comes in Executive and Shuttle configurations. Embraer, the Empresa Brasileira de Aeronáutica S.A. is a Brazilian company, founded on August 19th, 1969, by the Brazilian government. ... Business jet (slang, Bizjet) is a term for a jet aircraft, usually of modest size, designed for transporting small groups of business people for commercial reasons at a time convenient to their business needs. ... The EMBRAER ERJ 135 is a twin-engine commuter airliner. ...
Embraer jets have carved a niche in the commercial airline market with their regional jet aircraft in the late 1990s and now they plan to do the same in the business jet, private jet, and Air Taxi markets.
Embraer entered the Very Light and Light Jet segments with the launch of the Phenom series (including the Phenom 100 and Phenom 300) in May 2005 and introduced the Lineage 1000, an ultra-large executive jet based on the Embraer 190 commercial jet platform, in May 2006.
Embraer expects to deliver, in 2007, between 160 and 165 Embaer aircraft in the commercial aviation, executive aviation and defense and government (sate-owned airliners and government authority transportation) segments.