Embraer Unidade Gavião Peixoto Airport

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The Embraer Unidades Gavião Peixoto is a private airfield in the Brazilian state of São Paulo, near the town of Gavião Peixoto and the city of Araraquara. The airport has the longest private airstrip in the Americas and the fourth longest in the world.

Use

The aircraft manufacturer Empresa Brasileira de Aeronáutica SA ( Embraer ) uses the system for test and delivery flights and material transports and business aviation. Embraer operates since 2001 at the airfield a plant with 3,000 employees. Here the wing sections of the Embraer 190 and Embraer 195 and the Embraer EMB 314 Super Tucano be made ​​. Since 2008 is also the final assembly of the Embraer Phenom 100 and Embraer Phenom 300 instead.

On the occasion of the 40 - year anniversary Embraer planted for reforestation of 356 hectares of 600,000 trees in the outdoor area of the assembly plant.