Today, the company is renowned in the global commercial, executive and defence aviation markets.

Embraer is the fruit of an ambitious long-term project of the Brazilian government, envisioned by Air Marshall Casimiro Montenegro in the 1940s and continued by thousands of people who have worked and put forth every effort for us to arrive at this day.

On August 19 marked four decades for Embraer, one of Brazil’s leading exporters. Throughout this period, the company designed more than 20 different aircraft models for the commercial and executive aviation markets and the defence segment. Created on August 19, 1969, by Decree-Law number 770, Embraer, or Empresa Brasileira de Aeronáutica S.A., was a mixed capital company under government control. The purpose was to found a company capable of transforming science and technology, developed by the CTA and by the Aeronautics Technological Institute (Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica) into engineering and industrial capacity. "Embraer is the fruit of an ambitious long-term project of the Brazilian government, envisioned by Air Marshall Casimiro Montenegro in the 1940s and continued by thousands of people who have worked and put forth every effort for us to arrive at this day," said Frederico Fleury Curado, Embraer President and CEO.

Since the IPD 6504 project of the then-Aeronautics Technical Center, Centro Técnico de Aeronáutica (CTA), now the Aerospace Technology and Sciences Directorate (Diretoria de Ciência e Tecnologia Aeroespacial), from which the pioneering Bandeirante originated, to the recent and aggressive project for developing the KC-390 cargo and refueling plane, in a partnership with the Brazilian Air Force, Força Aérea Brasileira (FAB), Embraer has delivered around 5,000 airplanes to 88 countries on five continents.