Flying high: Jackie Chan buys Legacy 500 business jet for $20mn

Actor and stuntman Jackie Chan has become the first customer in China to take delivery of the Embraer Legacy 500 business jet, which has a price tag of $20 million.

"The Legacy 500 features our best-to-date technologies and it incorporates designs that maximise passenger comfort and fuel efficiency," said Marco Tulio Pellegrini, president and CEO, Embraer Executive Jets.

A best-in-class carrier, the Legacy 500 is the first executive jet of its size to feature side-stick flight controls. At the vanguard of visual displays, the cockpit is equipped with a Rockwell Collins Pro Line Fusion avionics suite.



The 12-passenger jet's six foot-tall, flat-floor cabin includes a cabin management system, surround sound, high-definition entertainment system and eight club seats that transition to four beds for long hauls. Taking off from airfields as short as 4,084 feet, the Legacy 500 has a range of 3,125 nautical miles (5,788 kilometers) with four passengers.

The Legacy 500 jet is capable of f lying at 45,000 feet and is powered by two Honeywell HTF7500E engines, the greenest in their class. It is configured with four axial compressor stages, a single centrifugal compressor, a two-stage high-pressure turbine and a three-stage low-pressure turbine driving a high-efficiency fan.

"I'm so thrilled to receive this Legacy 500, a state-of-art executive jet," Chan said in a statement.

Performance Summary

- Range: 5,788 kms

- MMO: Mach 0.83

- High-speed cruise: 863 km/hr

- Graphical flight planning

- Full fly-by-wire technology

- New tech for lower emissions and reduced noise