Embraer · 2008+
Embraer Phenom 100 (100 / 100E / 100EV)
Specifications
Performance
Cruise
393KTAS
Range
1,178nm
Climb
2800fpm
Ceiling
41,000ft
Fuel Burn
145.0gph
Fuel Cap.
419gal
MPG
3.1mpg
Stall (Vs0)
—KIAS
T/O roll
—ft
Ldg roll
—ft
Size & weight
Seats
6
Useful Load
3,340lbs
Full-fuel payload
534lbs
Max gross
10,472lbs
Wingspan
40.4ft
Length
42.1ft
Engine
Engine
Pratt & Whitney Canada PW617F-E
Power
0hp
TBO
3,500hrs
Overhaul
—each
Engines
2
Owning it
Hull insurance
$22k/yr
Parts
good
Mechanics
common
Gear
Retractable
IFR
Yes
Category
certified
Full specification
V-speeds
Airframe
- Empty weight
- 7,132 lbs
- Max fuel weight
- 2,806 lbs
- Height
- 14.3 ft
- Wing position
- low
Obstacle performance
- Takeoff over 50 ft
- 3,400 ft
- Landing over 50 ft
- 2,699 ft
Paperwork
- Type certificate
- A59CE
- Certification basis
- Part 23
These figures are typical for the model, not a specification for any individual aircraft. Real-world numbers vary with year, installed equipment, weight, modifications and engine condition — often by more than you would expect. Use them to compare types, and confirm anything you would act on against the Pilot's Operating Handbook for that specific airframe and a prebuy inspection.
Pricing
Typical
$2.3M
Range
$1.9M – $3.6M
Annual all-in
~$222k/yr
All-in at ~100 flying hours a year, using the midpoint of each range — the same figures broken out under “Cost to own” below. Your number will differ, and mostly for two reasons. Experience sets your insurance: a 2,000-hour pilot with recent training pays 30–40% less than a 200-hour owner, and student owners pay 20–40% more — on the same aircraft that is often a doubling. Location sets your hangar: a T-hangar runs $200–400 a month in the Midwest against $400–1,500 in a coastal metro, and an outside tie-down is less again. Engine reserves move too — a local shop reusing your serviceable cylinders can come in 30–50% under the national specialty-shop pricing we quote, though you trade the warranty and turnaround that comes with it. Reserves are money set aside toward a future overhaul, not a bill this year, and the annual inspection figure is the shop’s labor to look — whatever they find is separate.
Cost to own — estimate
Set your yearly hours and local fuel price. Fixed costs (insurance, hangar, annual inspection) don't change with hours; fuel, maintenance and the engine program do.
- Fuel (145 gph)
- $87,000
- Engine program
- $43,000
- Maintenance, parts & wear items ($130/hr)
- $13,000
- Insurance
- $18,100–$36,150
- Hangar
- $13,777–$34,442
- Annual inspection (labor only)
- $18,000
- Databases & subscriptions
- $2,500
- Total per year
- $214,734
- Per flight hour
- $2,147
- Miles flown / year (at cruise)
- 45,226 mi
- Cost per mile
- $4.75/mi
- Time in the air
- 46 min
- Fuel burned
- 111 gal
- Out of pocket
- $1,092
Fuel, engine reserve and wear only. Insurance, hangar and the annual are already paid whether you make the trip or not, so they are not charged here.
Estimate, not a quote. Where a line shows a range, the total, per-hour and per-mile figures use its midpoint— insurance moves most with your experience and time in type, hangar with where you base the aircraft, so your own number could sit at either end. Annual inspection is the shop's labor to open and inspect — what they find is the maintenance line, which covers oil changes, plugs, tires, brakes, hoses, lights, a battery and vacuum pump amortised over their life, and the unscheduled squawks that are the largest and least predictable part of it. The engine line is an hourly maintenance program (JSSI, P&W ESP, Williams TAP or similar), not a reserve you control — it is a contract paid per flight hour, and enrolment transfers with the aircraft, so confirm it at prebuy.
Strengths
- Efficient twin-jet performance at 393 KTAS cruise
- 6-seat configuration with reasonable acquisition cost (~$2.26M)
- Proven Pratt & Whitney Canada engines
Weaknesses
- Fuel burn data sourced at different altitudes/power settings—no single integrated performance envelope
- 100EV variant burns significantly more fuel (169 gph vs. 145 gph base model)
- Limited range spec sourced from 2012 factory data; real-world range sensitivity to weight and conditions not detailed
Performance
cruise_speed_ktas and fuel_burn_gph are a genuine matched pair from a
single flight test (Plane & Pilot, at FL290: 393 KTAS burning 966 lb/hr, or
145 gph). range_nm is sourced separately, from AOPA's 2012 "Four Years On"
factory-style spec table, at a different altitude and power setting (33,000
ft, "max cruise setting": 390 kt/1,178 nm). The two cruise speeds are close
(393 vs 390, 0.8% apart) but are not the same reading, and no source found
this session gives cruise, burn and range together at one condition — the
same gap found on the Cheyenne 400LS and Citation M2 pages researched
alongside this one. A third data point, from a 2017 pilot report on the
100EV specifically, observed 566 lb/hr per side (1,132 lb/hr combined,
~169 gph) — the 100EV's more powerful PW617F1-E burns meaningfully more than
the base airplane this page describes.
Payload & Range
Useful load is 3,340 lb (against max takeoff weight, this catalog's convention), and full fuel is 2,806 lb (419 gal, corrected from a prior 407 gal that appears in no source checked this session) — so full fuel leaves 534 lb of payload. That is the number to plan against, not the seat count. An SB-modified or 100EV airframe, with its higher zero-fuel weight, carries meaningfully more.
The 6 seats include the right-hand cockpit seat, which manufacturers count as a passenger position. A single-pilot owner can genuinely fill it; a two-crew operator cannot.
| Loading | People + bags | Fuel available | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pilot only, full fuel | ~250 lb | 419 gal (2,806 lb) | The sourced case: ~1,178 nm at 390 KTAS, max cruise setting, 33,000 ft, w/NBAA reserves (AOPA, 2012) |
| All 6 seats filled, bags | ~1,300 lb | ~305 gal | Weight-limited, not tank-limited: fuel is capped to keep useful load (3,340 lb) from being exceeded |
The full-fuel row is the one sourced figure; the six-seats row is arithmetic (useful load 3,340 lb minus 1,300 lb of people and bags leaves 2,040 lb of fuel, about 305 gal) rather than a published range, and no per-condition burn figure exists to convert it into a distance with the same confidence as the full-fuel row. Plan a real flight from the AFM, not this table.

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