Overhead

Embraer

Embraer ERJ145

American Eagle Embraer ERJ145LR climbing away against a blue sky, three-quarter view showing its slim body, rear-mounted engines, and T-tail.
© Colin Brown Photography · CC BY 2.0

From below

The view you'll actually get from high overhead.

bmi Regional Embraer ERJ145 seen directly from below on takeoff, showing the pencil-thin body, rear-mounted engines, and T-tail.
© Adrian Pingstone

Field marks

  1. Engines on the back of the body plus a T-shaped tail mark it (and the CRJ) apart from any E-Jet, which has underwing engines and a low tail — the classic regional-jet split
  2. Absolute length (29.9 m) is unremarkable, but the body is unusually narrow for its length, giving it a pencil-thin, stretched look despite carrying only 50 seats
  3. Long, needle-like pointed nose, inherited from the EMB-120 Brasilia turboprop this family was derived from
  4. A visible exhaust pipe from the plane's small onboard generator (the APU) pokes out below the tail fin — look for it to separate a distant ERJ145 from a similarly shaped CRJ200

Specs

Length
29.87 m
Wingspan
20.04 m
Engines
Rolls-Royce AE3007A1/A1P
Typical seats
50

Size and shape, to scale

Photos can't hold a consistent scale from shot to shot — these silhouettes are all drawn at the same 10 px = 1 m scale, so the proportions here are trustworthy even though the photos above aren't.

Variant notes

  • Descended from the shorter ERJ135/140 (not in this dataset) — all three share the same slim 2.28 m body cross-section and nose
  • Cabin seats one-and-two across the single aisle (three abreast total), not the usual two-and-two or three-and-three of larger jets
  • United and several regional carriers are winding down their ERJ145 fleets, but SkyWest, Envoy, and international operators keep it common through the late 2020s

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