Air Apparent
Aug 19, 2019
4 minutes
BY LORETTA GRANTHAM
She was in her 90s and nothing if not an optimist.
“This might be my last plane,” she told the interior design team at Embraer Executive Jets, “and I want to have fun. I don’t want to do beige.”
What the spirited, Texas-based client wanted to do was color. Lots of color. So much so, in fact, that there initially were some raised eyebrows at Embraer, which builds planes in Melbourne, Florida. But once the staff embraced the flamboyance, they had a blast. And so, apparently, did the buyer. “It meant the world for us to be able to deliver what she wanted,” says Frank Chavez, Embraer’s director of interior design and customer
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