The Embraer Regional Jet family, or ERJ, was Embraer's first line of jet-powered regional airliners, made up of the 37-seat ERJ 135, the 44-seat ERJ 140 and the 50-seat ERJ 145. Development of the ERJ 145 was launched in 1989 as a turbofan-powered stretch of the EMB 120 Brasilia, then redesigned in the early 1990s with a new swept wing and two rear-mounted Rolls-Royce AE 3007 turbofans. It first flew on 11 August 1995, gained its type certificate on 10 December 1996 and entered revenue service with ExpressJet Airlines on 6 April 1997, with the shorter ERJ 135 and ERJ 140 following in 1999. A line in Harbin, China, built 41 aircraft before closing in 2016. Production ended in 2020 after 1,231 aircraft, by which time the E-Jet family had overtaken it.
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The airframe is based on the ERJ 145 civil regional jet
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