Embraer Legacy 500
Super-Midsize jet - 8 passengers, 3,153 nm published range
About the Embraer Legacy 500
The Embraer Legacy 500 is a super-midsize business jet built around fly-by-wire flight controls, a flat-floor stand-up cabin and Embraer's clean-sheet design philosophy. It offers three distinct cabin zones and coast-to-coast US range in a package smaller operators can crew and hangar easily.
Who charters it
Charter clients choose the Legacy 500 for transcontinental US trips and cross-country business travel where a genuine stand-up, three-zone cabin and eight-plus passenger capacity are needed without stepping up to a heavy jet.
Specifications
- Class
- Super-Midsize
- Manufacturer
- Embraer
- Published range
- 3,153 nm
- Range with four passengers
- 3,125 nm
- Reserve-adjusted (85% of four-passenger range)
- 2,656 nm
- Seats
- 8 typical, 12 max
- Service ceiling
- 45,000 ft
- Takeoff field
- 4,084 ft
- Cabin height
- 6'0"
- Cabin width
- 6'10"
- Cabin length
- 26'11"
- Indicative rate
- $4,500 - $8,000/hr
- Production
- Out of production
Specifications current as of 2026-08-24. Published range assumes still air, an optimum profile, and a light payload. Rates are indicative and vary with routing, availability, and operator.
Worth knowing
- Fly-by-wire flight controls with active side-sticks
- Full stand-up, flat-floor cabin with three living zones
- Honeywell Primus Epic avionics with synthetic vision
- Coast-to-coast US range capability
- Externally serviceable galley and lavatory
Colorado mountain airports: capable
Approved for high-altitude airports up to 13,800 ft with strong short-field numbers for a midsize-plus cabin, and it shares its airframe with the Praetor 600 that Embraer and Flexjet market for Aspen-class runways, so ASE and EGE are realistic with normal seasonal payload trims. Like the Praetor 600, treat TEX as marginal for the type's weight class rather than routine.
Planning guidance only. The operator, the AFM performance data, and conditions on the day are the final authority.
Is the Embraer Legacy 500 right for your trip?
See how far it reaches from your departure airport, or send us the trip and we will price it against the alternatives.