Melbourne Area Blog

Last December Embraer opened it's assembly hanger and administration offices. Yesterday they celebrated the opening of their customer center which will be the showroom for all of their private jets.

Embraer is manufacturing their Phantom 100 and Phantom 300 jets at their first and only North American final assembly plant here in Melbourne.

After the Embraer announcement in 2008 that they had chosen Melbourne as their location two other avionic companies have moved to the area.

It is great news for the county as a whole after the cancelation of the Constellation project at Kennedy Space Center to replace the shuttle cost many jobs in the area.