{"id":32592365,"date":"2026-11-13T10:36:20","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T09:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/embraer-emb-110-bandeirante-twin-turboprop-commuter-history-ozires-silva\/"},"modified":"2026-11-13T10:36:34","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T09:36:34","slug":"embraer-emb-110-bandeirante-twin-turboprop-commuter-history-ozires-silva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/fr\/embraer-emb-110-bandeirante-twin-turboprop-commuter-history-ozires-silva\/","title":{"rendered":"Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante: The Turboprop That Built Embraer"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\r\n<!-- mfsh:top -->\r\n\r\n<style>\r\n.mfsh-trigger{display:inline-flex;align-items:center;gap:10px;height:44px;padding:0 18px;margin:0 0 26px;border:2px solid 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Major Jos&eacute; Mariotto Ferreira and flight engineer Michel Cury brought it back 50 minutes later. The witnesses raised their arms in celebration.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The aircraft had no manufacturer. There was no company to build it, no investors willing to try, and no proof that Brazil could sell an airliner to anyone. Within a year, that prototype had created one. The company was Embraer, and the aircraft was the Bandeirante.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f4f6f9;border:1px solid #e2e7ee;padding:18px 22px;margin:22px 0 26px\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:700;color:#0d1117\">Quick Facts<\/p><ul style=\"margin:0;padding-left:18px\"><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Type:<\/strong> Twin-turboprop light transport and commuter airliner<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Origin:<\/strong> IPD-6504 project at Brazil&rsquo;s Aeronautical Technical Center (CTA), launched 1965<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Key people:<\/strong> Max Holste (lead designer), Ozires Silva (project leader, first head of Embraer)<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>First flight:<\/strong> 22 October 1968, S&atilde;o Jos&eacute; dos Campos (public presentation 26 October)<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Service entry:<\/strong> Brazilian Air Force, 9 February 1973 (as C-95); Transbrasil, April 1973<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Crew \/ seats:<\/strong> 2 pilots; 15 to 21 passengers in the main versions<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Engines:<\/strong> Two Pratt &amp; Whitney Canada PT6A turboprops (750 shp PT6A-34 on the EMB 110P1\/P2)<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Built:<\/strong> 498 delivered to customers in 36 countries; production ended around 1990<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Successor:<\/strong> Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">A plane for the towns the airlines forgot<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>By the 1960s, Brazil&rsquo;s airlines had moved to bigger aircraft and were abandoning the small towns of the interior. According to Jeffrey Rodengen&rsquo;s <em>The History of Embraer<\/em>, airlines served just 45 Brazilian communities in the 1960s, compared with 360 a decade earlier. In 1965 the Ministry of Aeronautics called for a reliable, cheap-to-run turboprop transport that could serve the country&rsquo;s small, rough airfields.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The work went to the Research and Development Institute (IPD) of the Aeronautical Technical Center (CTA) under the project number IPD-6504. The lead designer was the French engineer Max Holste. Leading the project for the CTA was Ozires Silva, a former Brazilian Air Force pilot who had flown amphibians over the Amazon and graduated as an aeronautical engineer from the Technological Institute of Aeronautics (ITA) in 1962.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #1565c0;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7\"><div><em>&ldquo;I had the right qualifications, at the right time, and in the right place.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Ozires Silva<\/strong> &mdash; Bandeirante project leader and founder of Embraer, on joining the IPD-6504 project (via Embraer)<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Assembly of the prototype began in 1966 with money scraped from other projects and, as Embraer itself recalls, plenty of scepticism inside and outside the Air Force. The CTA&rsquo;s director, Colonel Paulo Victor da Silva, gave it a better name than a project number: Bandeirante, after the 17th-century pioneers who pushed into Brazil&rsquo;s interior.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">22 October 1968<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>Getting to that first flight took three years and four months from the first preliminary studies. The team logged 110,000 project hours, 12,000 manufacturing drawings, 22,000 hours of structural and aerodynamic calculations and some 282,000 hours of manufacturing and tooling. The prototype was presented to officials and the press four days after its first flight, on 26 October, which is why some references give that later date.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/11\/embraer-bandeirante-prototype-parque-santos-dumont.jpg\" alt=\"Early Embraer Bandeirante prototype with round cabin windows on display behind a fence in Parque Santos Dumont, Sao Jose dos Campos\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">A Bandeirante prototype, with the round cabin windows of the early EMB 100s, on display at Parque Santos Dumont in S&atilde;o Jos&eacute; dos Campos, the city where the type first flew in 1968. Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Embraer_EMB_110_Bandeirante_Prototype_at_Parque_Santos_Dumont.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ivan Dos Santos Muniz \/ Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The first machines, later called EMB 100 and given the military designation YC-95, were modest: eight seats, round cabin windows and two Pratt &amp; Whitney Canada PT6A-20 turboprops. A second prototype flew in October 1969 and a third in 1970. Everyone agreed they flew well. The question was who would build them.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0 8px\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kEz158Oooj0\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;font-style:italic;margin:0 0 24px\">Embraer&rsquo;s own short film on the EMB 100 Bandeirante, released for the 50th anniversary of its first flight.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The fog that founded Embraer<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>No private investor would bet on a Brazilian aircraft industry. Then, on a Sunday in 1969, fog closed the airport at nearby Guaratinguet&aacute;. The aircraft carrying President Arthur da Costa e Silva diverted to S&atilde;o Jos&eacute; dos Campos and stopped in front of the Bandeirante hangar, while the local dignitaries were waiting for him at the wrong airport. Ozires Silva was sent to receive him.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #1565c0;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7\"><div><em>&ldquo;The highest authority in the country, who could solve the problem of our future company, was there in person, at my disposal, without offices, without protocols.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Ozires Silva<\/strong> &mdash; On the fog-bound 1969 visit of President Costa e Silva (via Embraer)<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Silva showed the president the aircraft and pitched a mixed-economy company to build it. On 19 August 1969, Decree 770 created Empresa Brasileira de Aeron&aacute;utica, Embraer, with Silva as its first managing director and an initial order for 80 Bandeirantes for the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/brazilian-air-force\/\">Brazilian Air Force<\/a>. The new company began work in its own facilities in S&atilde;o Jos&eacute; dos Campos in January 1970.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>By then the market had moved on from eight seats. Embraer redesigned the aircraft into the EMB 110: a longer fuselage, square windows, enclosed main wheels, a new windscreen and 680 shp PT6A-27 engines. The Brazilian Air Force, which called it the C-95, received the first one on 9 February 1973. Transbrasil took the first airline Bandeirante two months later.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/11\/embraer-emb-110-transbrasil-pt-tbc-rio-1975.jpg\" alt=\"Transbrasil Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante PT-TBC in gold and brown livery at Rio de Janeiro Santos Dumont Airport in 1975\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">Transbrasil, the first airline to operate the Bandeirante, flew PT-TBC from Rio de Janeiro&rsquo;s Santos Dumont Airport in April 1975, two years after taking its first example. Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Embraer_EMB-110_PT-TBC_T.Brasil_SDU_05.04.75_edited-2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RuthAS \/ Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Brazil&rsquo;s first export airliner<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/uruguayan-air-force\/\">Uruguayan Air Force<\/a> became the first export customer in 1975. Two years later the French commuter airline Air Littoral became the first foreign airline to order it, and in May 1977 its Bandeirante crossed the Atlantic, via Fernando de Noronha, Dakar and Seville, to appear at Embraer&rsquo;s first Paris Air Show. French, British and US certification followed between December 1977 and August 1978.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The timing was perfect. In 1978 the US authorities eased the rules for small aircraft on regional routes, just as American commuter airlines were hunting for something cheap and tough. Embraer opened a US subsidiary in Fort Lauderdale in 1979. The stretched EMB 110P1 and P2, with 18 or more seats and 750 shp PT6A-34 engines, became the definitive versions.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #d32f2f;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7\"><div><em>&ldquo;The Bandeirante represented much more than an aircraft, it marked a new cycle of transformation for Brazilian industry. It represents a Brazil that is bold, capable of uniting competence, talent and innovation.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Paulo Cesar de Souza e Silva<\/strong> &mdash; President &amp; CEO of Embraer, at the Bandeirante&rsquo;s 50th anniversary, October 2018<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Bandeirantes flew for Air Ecosse and Air Wales in Britain, Brit Air and Kar-Air in Europe, commuter carriers across the United States and operators in Australia and the Pacific. The military bought them too, as transports, survey aircraft, search-and-rescue platforms and as the EMB 111 maritime patrol version, which the Brazilian Air Force called the P-95 Bandeirulha.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"max-width:550px;margin:0 auto 28px\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?id=1560295464045424642&theme=light\" style=\"width:100%;height:520px;border:none;overflow:hidden\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Ryanair&rsquo;s first aircraft<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>One of the type&rsquo;s most famous jobs came in Ireland. On 8 July 1985, a 15-seat Brazilian-built Bandeirante flew from Waterford to London Gatwick on the first ever Ryanair flight. The airline that would become Europe&rsquo;s largest started life with a Brazilian commuter turboprop and kept flying the type until the end of the 1980s.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/11\/ryanair-embraer-bandeirante-ei-bpi-stuttgart-1988.jpg\" alt=\"White Ryanair Commuter Embraer EMB-110P1 Bandeirante EI-BPI parked at Stuttgart Airport in 1988\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">Ryanair Bandeirante EI-BPI at Stuttgart in June 1988. A 15-seat Bandeirante flew the airline&rsquo;s first ever service, Waterford to London Gatwick, in July 1985. Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Ryanair_EMB-110.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Torsten Maiwald \/ Wikimedia Commons, GFDL 1.2<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Over two decades Embraer delivered 498 Bandeirantes to customers in 36 countries before production ended around 1990. Its successor was already flying: the pressurised, 30-seat EMB 120 Brasilia, which took the same formula further. From there Embraer went on to the ERJ regional jets, the E-Jets, the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/emb-312-tucano\/\">EMB-312 Tucano<\/a> trainer and today&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/kc-390-millennium\/\">C-390 Millennium<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0 8px\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cFY3_erJS2Y\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;font-style:italic;margin:0 0 24px\">Embraer marks 50 years of Bandeirante operations, counted from its Brazilian Air Force service entry on 9 February 1973 (in Portuguese).<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Still working<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>Fifty years after that first flight, in October 2018, Embraer counted about 150 Bandeirantes still flying with airlines, air taxis, government agencies and air forces in the Americas, Asia, Africa, Europe and the Middle East. In Guatemala, TAG Airlines has kept them in regular service into the 2020s.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/11\/tag-airlines-embraer-emb-110-tg-tan-guatemala.jpg\" alt=\"Blue and white TAG Airlines Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante TG-TAN climbing out over hills and houses in Guatemala\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">TAG Airlines Bandeirante TG-TAN climbing out in Guatemala in 2022. More than half a century after the first flight, the type is still earning a living in Central America. Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:TG-TAN_Embraer_Emb.110_TAG_Airlines.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oscar Josu&eacute; Elvir Vasquez \/ Wikimedia Commons, GFDL 1.2<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>When Embraer celebrated the anniversary, it restaged the 1968 ceremony in S&atilde;o Jos&eacute; dos Campos, and Ozires Silva was there to watch. The little turboprop built for forgotten airstrips had done more than reconnect Brazil&rsquo;s interior. It had built the country an aircraft industry.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0 8px\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TiL0PJeWAX8\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;font-style:italic;margin:0 0 24px\">A TAG Airlines EMB 110 taking off from La Aurora airport in Guatemala City, the turboprop soundtrack of a type that is still working.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><em>Sources: Embraer (Ozires Silva history; 50th anniversary release, October 2018), AVweb, Washington Aviation Historical Society (Robert G. Waldvogel, citing Jeffrey L. Rodengen, The History of Embraer), GlobalSecurity.org, Waterford News &amp; Star, AIN<\/em><\/p>\r\n<!-- mfsh:bottom -->\r\n\r\n<button type=\"button\" class=\"mfsh-trigger mfsh-bottom\" data-mfsh-placement=\"bottom\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><svg><use href=\"#mfsh-i-share\"\/><\/svg>Share this story<\/button>\r\n\r\n<!-- \/mfsh:bottom -->\r\n\r\n<p class=\"mf-photo-credits\" data-no-translation style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;font-style:italic;margin:6px 0 18px\">Header photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:G-POST_Emb_110_Bandeirante_Air_Ecosse_MAN_17APR81_(6846784699).jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ken Fielding \/ Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<style>.mfq{margin:34px 0 8px}.mfq h2{font:26px\/1.3 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117;padding-top:22px;margin:0 0 6px}.mfq .qa details{border-top:1px solid #5C91FF;margin:0;padding:0}.mfq .qa details:last-of-type{border-bottom:1px solid #e2e7ee}.mfq .qa summary{cursor:pointer;list-style:none;display:flex;justify-content:space-between;align-items:center;gap:16px;padding:22px 26px;font:18px\/1.7 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117}.mfq .qa summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}.mfq .qa summary::after{content:\"+\";font:24px Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#3568e0;flex:0 0 auto}.mfq .qa details[open] summary::after{content:\"\\2013\"}.mfq .qa details:hover summary{color:#3568e0}.mfq .qa .a{font:16px\/1.7 \"Gilroy regular\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#454e5e;padding:0 26px 24px}.mfq .qa .a a{color:#3568e0}@media(max-width:680px){.mfq .qa summary{padding:18px 14px;font-size:17px}.mfq .qa .a{padding:0 14px 20px}}<\/style>\r\n\r\n\r\n<section class=\"mfq\"><h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2><div class=\"qa\"><details open><summary>What is the Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante is a Brazilian twin-turboprop light transport and commuter airliner. It began as the IPD-6504 project at Brazil&rsquo;s Aeronautical Technical Center, first flew on 22 October 1968, and was the first aircraft built by Embraer. Typical versions seat 15 to 21 passengers with two pilots.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>How did the Bandeirante lead to the creation of Embraer?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">No private investor would build the Bandeirante after its 1968 first flight. In 1969 project leader Ozires Silva pitched a state-backed company to President Costa e Silva, whose plane had diverted to Sao Jose dos Campos in fog. Decree 770 of 19 August 1969 created Embraer to produce it.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Who designed the Embraer Bandeirante?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The Bandeirante was designed under the IPD-6504 project at Brazil&rsquo;s Aeronautical Technical Center. The French engineer Max Holste was the lead designer, while Brazilian Air Force officer and engineer Ozires Silva led the project and later became Embraer&rsquo;s first managing director.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>How many EMB 110 Bandeirantes were built?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Embraer delivered 498 EMB 110 Bandeirantes in civil and military versions to customers in 36 countries over about two decades, with production ending around 1990. In October 2018, about 150 were still operating with airlines, air taxis, government bodies and air forces.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Was Ryanair&rsquo;s first aircraft a Bandeirante?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Yes. Ryanair&rsquo;s first ever flight, from Waterford to London Gatwick on 8 July 1985, was flown with a 15-seat Brazilian-built Embraer Bandeirante. 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