Phenom 100

The Phenom 100 leads this category on both cabin dimensions that passengers actually register: 59.1 in of height and 61 in of width, each the largest of the four very light jets we charter. Neither figure makes this a stand-up cabin — nothing in this class comes close, and the category is a seated one by definition — but within those limits the Phenom is the aircraft where four people are least aware of the walls. The cabin runs 132 in, top speed is 405 kt, and range is 1,194 nm.

Takeoff is 3,199 ft, second shortest here behind the Citation Mustang's 3,110, and the landing distance of 2,473 ft is the only verified landing figure we hold across the four. Embraer still builds the type. What the aircraft does not have on record is a baggage volume, so the hold is not something this page will quantify — a charterer for whom luggage is the deciding factor should be looking at the HondaJet or the Mustang, whose figures we do hold. For four passengers on a short sector who would rather have the cross-section than the reach, this is the one.

The most cabin in the smallest class