A Legacy 450 of Germany's Atlas Air Service at Salzburg Airport in July 2018. · Photo by André Gerwing (The André Gerwing Collection), Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
Embraer · Midsize Jet
Legacy 450 (EMB-545)
A shortened Legacy 500, built 2015 to 2019 and replaced by the Praetor 500, which many owners have converted to.
The most modern used midsize cabin and cockpit for about $14M: fly-by-wire, a stand-up flat floor, 150 cu ft of bags and coast-to-coast range. The catch is scarcity, because most have been converted to Praetor 500s.
Buy it if
You fly four to seven people up to 2,900 nm, want a cabin you can stand up in, value modern avionics and fly-by-wire safety, and can budget about $1.9M a year with two pilots.
Skip it if
You need more than 2,900 nm, want to fill all nine seats on long legs, or want a big choice of aircraft; a Praetor 500 or Challenger 350 adds range, and a Citation Latitude has more examples.
Biggest compromise
Scarcity. Only 58 were built and about 34 have since been upgraded to Praetor 500 standard, so roughly 22 still fly as Legacy 450s and only two or three are usually for sale.
The numbers that matter
Purchase price
$11.5M–$15.5M
guide value (Aircraft Bluebook)
What it costs per year
$1.93M
at 300 hrs · two professional pilots
How far it flies
2,904 nm
How fast
462 kt
high-speed cruise
Seats
7
7 typical (up to 9 by interior)
Pilots needed
2
Certified for two pilots; one type rating covers the Legacy 450, Legacy 500 and both Praetors.
Price
What one costs to buy
Guide value
$11.5M–$15.5M
Other sites
9.1% of the fleet
Priced vs call
with a price / call for price
Two of three listed aircraft show prices, $13.3M and $14.5M; Aircraft Bluebook values run $11.5M for a 2015 to $15.5M for a 2019.
Price vs its family and alternatives
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Legacy 450 (EMB-545) · This aircraft
$11.5M–$15.5M guide
Guide value, not a listed asking price.
The least expensive here; next up is the Legacy 500 (EMB-550).
For sale now
None listed right now
Cost to own
What it costs per year to run
300hours / year
Per year
Per flight hour
Estimate — your operator will quote actual numbers.
Fuel, airframe maintenance, engine program, both engines and apu program rise as you fly more. Two pilots, recurrent training, hangar, insurance and subscriptions and software stay the same however much you fly.
Where the money goes
- Two pilots$378,52520%
- Recurrent training$40,0002%
- Hangar$53,0623%
- Insurance$50,5003%
- Subscriptions and software$55,0853%
- Fuel$669,46535%
- Airframe maintenance$315,00016%
- Engine program, both engines$316,65016%
- APU program$50,1003%
Fuel is the biggest single cost at 35% of the total.
The JetGrade
75 out of 100 — Clearly above its class
Peer group: Cessna Citation Latitude (680A), Cessna Citation Sovereign+ (680), Embraer Praetor 500, Gulfstream G150
Seven categories at a glance
- - - 70 = typical— This aircraft
Strongest on cabin & passenger comfort, weakest on running costs.
Grades are editorial opinions about the model, not any specific aircraft. Sponsors and affiliates have no input. Reviewed 2026-10-29.
Where it flies
Sample trips and reach
Typical trips on a map
Nonstop
Depends on weight or weather
7 of 8 sample trips are comfortable nonstops.
Sample flight times
- 0.9 hr
Carlsbad → Las Vegas
205 nm · Short hop at any weight
- 1.9 hr
Carlsbad → Aspen
625 nm · High-elevation airport; depends on weight and weather
- 2.2 hr
Santa Ana → San José del Cabo
765 nm · Nonstop with a full cabin
- 2.5 hr
Teterboro → West Palm Beach
900 nm · Nonstop with wide margin
- 3.1 hr
Dallas → Teterboro
1,190 nm · Nonstop with wide margin
- 3.6 hr
Teterboro → San Juan
1,410 nm · Nonstop with margin over water
- 5.3 hr
Carlsbad → Teterboro
2,100 nm · Coast to coast nonstop with four passengers
- 5.6 hr
Los Angeles → Honolulu
2,215 nm · Nonstop in normal winds with four passengers
Lineage
What came before and after
2015–2019
Embraer Legacy 450
4 ft shorter cabin for seven to nine passengers.
What changed
- Versus the Legacy 500, the cabin is 4 ft shorter: 24 ft with one club section.
- Versus the Legacy 500, the same Honeywell HTF7500E engines run at a lower 6,540 lb thrust rating.
- Range rose from about 2,575 nm to 2,904 nm in 2016; earlier aircraft could be retrofitted.
- The 2016 change raised maximum takeoff weight from 35,274 lb to 35,759 lb.
- Shares fly-by-wire controls, side-sticks and Pro Line Fusion avionics with the Legacy 500.
- From 2020, owners could convert to Praetor 500 standard for about $500,000.
Size and cabin
How big it is, inside and out
Outside
Silhouette · scaled to length
Length
Wingspan
Height
Inside the cabin
Cabin length
Width
Height
Compare
How it stacks up
This aircraft
Legacy 450 (EMB-545)
- JetGrade
- 75
- Price
- $11.5M–$15.5M guide
- Cost per year
- $1.93M
- Range
- 2,904 nm
- Speed
- 462 kt
- Seats
- 7
- Cabin length
- 24′ 0″
- Pilots
- 2
- Years built
- 2015–2019
After →
- JetGrade
- 80
- Price
- $17.5M–$20M guide
- Cost per year
- $2.09M
- Range
- 3,340 nm
- Speed
- 466 kt
- Seats
- 7
- Cabin length
- 24′ 1″
- Pilots
- 2
- Years built
- 2019–now
Alternative
- JetGrade
- 75
- Price
- $18.75M
- Cost per year
- $2.15M
- Range
- 2,700 nm
- Speed
- 446 kt
- Seats
- 8
- Cabin length
- 21′ 9″
- Pilots
- 2
- Years built
- 2015–now
Alternative
- JetGrade
- 72
- Price
- $17.75M–$22.5M guide
- Cost per year
- $2.3M
- Range
- 3,600 nm
- Speed
- 482 kt
- Seats
- 9
- Cabin length
- 25′ 10″
- Pilots
- 2
- Years built
- 2012–now
- Embraer Praetor 500 instead: The same cabin with winglets, more fuel and about 3,340 nm of range; asks run near $20M, and some are converted Legacy 450s.
- Cessna Citation Latitude (680A) instead: Similar stand-up flat-floor cabin and far more aircraft on the market, but shorter range of about 2,700 nm.
- Gulfstream G280 instead: Super-midsize range of about 3,600 nm at similar used asking prices, with a lower, narrower-feeling cabin and older design.
Gold marks the best figure in each row.
Owning one
What to know before you buy
Engines & inspections
2 × Honeywell HTF7500E · 6,540 lbf each
Engine hours until overhaul
- 750-hour inspection · 750 hr
- Cockpit side window inspection · 750 hr
- Turbine borescope · 4,000 hr
- Compressor borescope · 8,000 hr
- 12-month inspection every 12 months
- 120-month heavy check every 120 months
- Main door sensor test every 12 months
The engines have no fixed overhaul time and are maintained on condition; most listed aircraft carry Honeywell MSP Gold, so confirm the coverage level and transfer.
Known issues
Pitch-trim actuator directive
A 2026 emergency directive requires checking the stabilizer trim actuator; a failed check means a replacement of about $150,000.
Angle-of-attack limiter limits
A 2024 directive added flight manual approach limits after hard landings; a proposed software update would remove them.
Main door lock sensor
A corroded sensor contributed to a 2022 in-flight door opening; sensors now need yearly tests.
Pre-buy checklist
0 of 10 checked
Embraer owns US service centers in Mesa, Melbourne, Fort Lauderdale, Dallas, Sanford and Cleveland, backed by 24 authorized shops and mobile teams; about 95% of parts are common with the Legacy 500.
Review
The full review
Strengths
- About 2,900 nm with four passengers and NBAA IFR reserves (the standard fuel safety margin), enough for Los Angeles to New York.
- A 6 ft tall, 6 ft 10 in wide flat-floor cabin, 24 ft long, with an externally serviced enclosed lavatory.
- Full fly-by-wire with envelope protection and a 3,907 ft sea-level takeoff distance at maximum weight.
Limitations
- Only about 22 still fly as Legacy 450s; typically two or three are for sale at any time.
- Range drops with a full cabin; payload with full tanks is limited to roughly four passengers.
- Two-pilot operation and about 285 gallons an hour put annual costs near $1.9M at 300 hours.
The Legacy 450 is Embraer's clean-sheet midsize jet, a 4 ft shorter version of the Legacy 500 that shares its wing, Honeywell HTF7500E engines, Collins Pro Line Fusion cockpit and fly-by-wire flight controls. Brazil and the FAA certified it in August 2015 and Embraer delivered 58 through 2019, when the Praetor 500, the same airplane with winglets and more fuel, replaced it. Since 2020 Embraer has offered owners a conversion to Praetor 500 standard, and about 34 aircraft have taken it, leaving roughly 22 still flying as Legacy 450s.
Pilot's take
From the flight deck, the Legacy 450 feels a generation newer than most midsize jets. Side-sticks and fly-by-wire with envelope protection make it smooth and predictable to hand-fly, and the Pro Line Fusion cockpit with synthetic vision keeps workload low on a two-pilot crew. It gets off short runways easily and climbs straight into the low 40s. Crews moving from conventional jets should expect a real learning curve on the automation and flight-control logic, so budget for good simulator training every year and pick a shop that knows Embraer well.
Who this is for
Owners and companies flying 200 to 400 hours a year with four to seven passengers on 1,000 to 2,500 nm trips, who want a stand-up cabin and modern cockpit for about $13M to $15M and plan to keep the airplane for years.
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