However, airframer does not expect deliveries to begin until 2028.
Three aviation regulators have certificated Embraer’s Phenom 300EV, the latest variant of the manufacturer’s light jet and the first equipped with Garmin’s emergency Autoland system.
The US Federal Aviation Administration, European Union Aviation Safety Agency and Brazilian regulator ANAC have all approved the Phenom 300EV, Embraer said on 25 August.
Embraer in July revealed development of the aircraft, the third iteration of its fast-selling Phenom 300. It expects to begin delivering the type in 2028.
The approvals make the Phenom 300EV “the first light jet certified with” Garmin’s Autoland system, which lands the aircraft without pilot input in the case of pilot incapacitation.
The system has proved a hit and is available on a host of small, and increasingly larger, aircraft, including ultra-light jets like the HondaJet Elite II, Cirrus Vision Jet and still-to-be-certificated Cessna Citation CJ4 Gen3, and turboprops such as the Daher TBM 980 and Beechcraft Denali.
Embraer Executive Jets chief executive Michael Amalfitano has said the company is considering extending Autoland to the smaller Phenom 100.
The company introduces other safety features with the 300EV. Those include a Multi-Purpose Electronic Controller system that integrates an autobrake feature with a rudder-by-wire function to reduce pilot workload.
Embraer also equipped the 300EV with Garmin’s 3D taxiway routing and runway occupancy awareness tool and a synthetic vision guidance system.
The jet retains the Garmin 3000 Prodigy Touch avionics and twin Pratt & Whitney Canada PW353E1 turbofans found on the prior-generation Phenom 300E, though the 300EV has slightly more range – 2,055nm (3,806km), up from 2,010nm.
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