BIG AVIATION REPORT

Thu, Oct 8, 2026, 06:59:38 MT

THE AVIATIONIST · DEFENSE

FIRST BRAZILIAN-BUILT GRIPEN E MAKES MAIDEN FLIGHT...

The first of 15 Gripen Es to be built at Embraer’s facility in São Paulo, the aircraft is also the first Gripen produced outside Sweden.

SCOTT: Watch the airframe and the training pipeline, not the parade footage. Programs live or die in the schoolhouse.

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