Praetor 600

At 4,018 nm the Praetor 600 reaches further than any other super midsize aircraft we charter, and the margin is not academic: 372 nm beyond the Gulfstream G-280 that follows it, and more than 1,300 nm beyond the Citation Latitude at the other end of the class. Reach of that order changes which sectors are planned as one leg instead of two — a European departure that makes the US eastern seaboard, or a Gulf routing that does not need a stop written into it. Embraer still builds the type, so availability does not depend on a closed production run and the airframes coming to market are not a fixed pool. The Praetor 600 is the aircraft to ask about when the sector sits at the edge of what this class can do, because it is the one with margin left when the others are planning fuel.

The cabin runs 331 in, the longest here, with the Legacy 500's 328 in the nearest to it, and the hold takes 155 cu ft across sixteen bags. Width is 82 in and height 72 in — the cross-section Embraer carries across the Legacy 450 and 500 as well, so a charterer moving between the three meets familiar proportions and a different quantity of them. Eight to nine seats is the working configuration, which means the length goes to space per passenger rather than to seat count. On a sector long enough to justify the range that is the right place for it: the cabin divides into a working end and a resting end without either half feeling borrowed from the other.

The longest reach in the class