Embraer Executive Jets delivers 300th Phenom 100

Kim Stevens News Release

1_300_PHENOM_100ssedit.jpg Embraer Executive Jets has delivered the 300th Phenom 100, a clean-sheet-design jet announced in 2005. The first aircraft was delivered in December 2008, and the current fleet is operating in over 25 countries.

“We are thrilled to have reached this milestone, after just five years into the Phenom 100’s operation,” said Marco Túlio Pellegrini, President and CEO, Embraer Executive Jets. “We are very grateful to our Phenom 100 customers, with whom we share the celebration of this achievement.”

The 300th Phenom 100 was delivered to Laticínios Bela Vista, an agribusiness company based in Bela Vista de Goiás, in Central Brazil, renowned for its Piracanjuba brand of dairy products. This is the second Phenom 100 for Laticínios Bela Vista, whose primary use of the aircraft is to shuttle corporate officers and management among the company’s industrial facilities, and to visit customers in major cities across Brazil.

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Kim Stevens is the publisher of State Aviation Journal, which he founded in 2009. A longtime commercial-rated pilot, he was introduced to state aviation in 1992 as Director of the Nebraska Department of Aeronautics, later serving as Deputy Division Director for the Arizona Department of Transportation's Aeronautics Division. From 2013 to 2018, he was Director of Communications and Operations for the National Association of State Aviation Officials (NASAO) in Washington, D.C. Relocating to North Carolina, Kim worked for the Raleigh-Durham International Airport for two years and now concentrates solely on the Journal. Prior to his aviation career, Kim spent a decade in the newspaper and magazine business.