PATS Aircraft Completions has taken delivery of the first green Embraer Lineage 1000 business jet. The 19-seat Lineage, which is based on the Embraer 190 large regional jet, is scheduled to be delivered to Aamer Abul Jalil Al Fahim in mid-2008 and based in Abu Dhabi, where it will be in private use.
Following its first flight in Brazil on 26 October, the $49 million aircraft arrived at PATS' Georgetown, Delaware completions facility on 16 November for installation of the interior, designed by UK company Priestman Goode.
PATS has a contract to complete 35 Lineage interiors over a 10-year period, with throughput increasing from four aircraft a year initially to eight a year by 2010.
Meanwhile, Embraer and CAE have formalised their joint venture to provide initial and recurrent training for pilot and ground crew personnel for the Phenom 100 and Phenom 300 business jets.
The venture, named Embraer CAE Training Services, will kick start Phenom family training at CAE SimuFlite in Dallas, Texas, in the third quarter of next year and at CAE's Burgess Hill training centre in the UK in early 2009.
Source: FlightGlobal.com
