There is a contradiction at the heart of the Brazilian business aviation market: the country with the second largest fleet in the world has decades of distance between its airports with prepared runways and the destinations where business decisions actually take place — farms, mining companies, infrastructure projects, indigenous lands, energy bases.
The Pilatus PC-24 was designed exactly to solve this contradiction.
800 meters on any surface
The PC-24 is the only business jet certified to operate on unpaved, compacted earth, gravel or snow runways, with a takeoff distance of just 800 m. This opens up a list of destinations inaccessible to any other jet — turboprop or not.
Jet performance, turboprop versatility
Once at altitude, the PC-24 flies like a jet: 815 km/h, 45,000 ft ceiling, range of 3,241 km. The trip from Cuiabá to São Paulo takes less than 2 hours. The trip from a remote farm in Pará to Belém can be done in 40 minutes.
The cargo door that changes everything
With a 1.30 m × 1.30 m cargo door — the largest of any business jet in production — the PC-24 can carry medical equipment, machinery or palletized cargo without adaptations. It's an air ambulance, executive freighter and VIP transport on a single platform.
