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Embraer Marks Bandeirante 40th Anniversary
October 22, 2008 - 12:33pm

Forty years after the first flight of the prototype twin-turboprop Bandeirante (designed by Frenchman Max Holste, who also designed the Broussard, France’s equivalent of the DHC-2 Beaver), Embraer celebrated the airplane that launched the company into the aerospace industry.