In 1709, Bartolomeu de Gusmão began Brazil's contributions to the aeronautical world by creating the hot air balloon. As early as 1901, with airship number 6, Santos Dumont made it around the Eiffel Tower during the first controlled flight in history. About five years later, on October 23, 1906, before more than a thousand spectators, he flew the 14-Bis - the first heavier-than-air aircraft to take off by its own means. Afterwards, he designed and brought his greatest work to life, the Demoiselle. Beyond inventing products, the Brazilian visionary gave wings to the dream of flying.

Years later, in 1950, the Brazilian Government inaugurated ITA - Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica - with a focus on the training of aeronautical engineers. In 1959, a restless and visionary young man became a student. Ozires Silva graduated as an aeronautical engineer in 1962 and began to participate (and, subsequently, coordinate) in the development of an aircraft project that would rescue regional aviation in the country.

With its first successful flight in 1968, the Bandeirante gained such acceptance that it required a factory for serial production. Thus, Embraer was born.