Embraer Executive Jets Legacy 500
The Legacy 500 was the first midsize jet with full fly-by-wire controls and introduced a six-foot flat-floor cabin that reset expectations for the class in 2014. About 80 were delivered before it evolved into the Praetor 600, and many have since been upgraded to Praetor standard through Embraer's conversion program.
In short: The Embraer Executive Jets Legacy 500 is a Midsize Jet with a range of 3,125 nm, a cruise speed of 466 knots and room for 8 passengers. Pre-owned examples trade around $10M–$15M and costs roughly $3,100 an hour to operate (estimate).
3,125 nm
Range
466 kts
Max cruise
8–12
Passengers
—
New price
Highlights
- First fly-by-wire midsize jet
- Six-foot flat-floor cabin
- Upgradeable to Praetor 600 standard
Performance
- Range
- 3,125 nm
- Max cruise
- 466 kts
- Max Mach
- 0.83
- Max altitude
- 45,000 ft
- Takeoff distance
- 4,084 ft
- Landing distance
- 2,122 ft
- MTOW
- 38,360 lb
- Engines
- 2 × Honeywell HTF7500E
- Fuel burn
- 255 gal/hr
Cabin
- Passengers
- 8 / 12
- Cabin length
- 27.5 ft
- Cabin width
- 6.8 ft
- Cabin height
- 6 ft
- Cabin volume
- 800 cu ft
- Baggage
- 155 cu ft
- Min. crew
- 2
Economics
- New price
- —
- Variable cost / hr
- $3,100
- Fixed cost / yr
- $900,000
- First delivery
- 2014
- Out of production
- 2019
- Units built
- 80
- Pre-owned range
- $10M – $15M
Estimates. Operating costs and pre-owned prices are modelled from industry benchmarks and updated quarterly. Data reviewed 2026-09-11. Sources & methodology.
Pre-owned range & Residual value curve
Pre-owned range
$10M – $15M
Estimates. Operating costs and pre-owned prices are modelled from industry benchmarks and updated quarterly.
Export CSVResidual value curve
Estimated value retention over 10 years from new, by category depreciation model.
Year 10: 42% ≈ $6.3M
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