“It is a great honor for Embraer to see the first prototype of the CBA 123 on public display at the Brazilian Aerospace Memorial,”  said Horacio Forjaz, Embraer Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs.

 

 

“The Memorial is only five years old, but 2009 will go down in history as the year in which we took a big step forward in expanding its collection: we received prototype number two of the Bandeirante restored by Embraer, the private collection of the creator and founder of the Aeronautics Technological Institute (Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica – ITA) and the DCTA, Air Marshall Casimiro Montenegro Filho, and now the CBA 123,”  

 The event marked the conclusion of the restoration of the two prototypes of the CBA 123, which had 19 seats and was developed by Embraer at the end of the ‘80s. The work began in early 2008 with students from the general mechanics course of the National Industrial Apprenticeship Service (Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem Industrial – SENAI), and was concluded in May 2009. The second prototype of the CBA 123, tail number PT-ZVB, was delivered to the Aerospace Museum (Museu Aeroespacial – MUSAL), in Rio de Janeiro, last August. 

Source: Embraer

said Air Force General Cleonilson Nicácio Silva, General Director of the Department of Science and Aerospace Technology (Departamento de Ciência e Tecnologia Aeroespacial – DCTA).