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The second quarter of 2026 is in the books, and Embraer's delivery report gives the company plenty to point to: 65 aircraft delivered, its best second-quarter performance in 16 years. The numbers speak to demand for its jets in both the new and used markets. Of the 65 aircraft delivered, 45 were executive jets. That is a 55% increase from the 29 delivered in the first quarter of 2026 and an 18% increase year over year. The Phenom 300 made up the largest share of executive deliveries with 20 in total, joined by 4 Phenom 100s, 9 Praetor 500s and 12 Praetor 600s. Embraer has made 13 more executive deliveries in the first half of 2026 than it did in the first half of 2025. The remaining 20 deliveries in Q2 2026 were commercial aircraft, double the 10 delivered in the first quarter and 5% more than in Q2 2025. In total, Embraer has delivered 109 aircraft in 2026, 18 more than the 91 it delivered over the same stretch of 2025, an increase of roughly 20%. The company credits the growth to continued progress in its production leveling initiatives. Behind most new deliveries sits a trade with a healthy share of those 45 executive handovers being step-up buyers: the Phenom 300 owner moving into a Praetor 500, the Praetor operator taking a new 600, and each of those moves leaves an airplane behind. Expect those airframes to resurface as used listings a few months later, which means a record delivery quarter tends to seed a bumper crop of preowned inventory. That could result in a softening of used Phenom 300/300E and Praetor 500/600 prices in about a year. But the counterargument is in the same report. A delivery quarter this strong means the market is absorbing new aircraft at an accelerating rate, and that kind of demand tends to hold used values up. Buyers that don't have the luxury of waiting for the Praetor 500E in 2029, are shopping the used market right now. Expect that demand to keep prices firm even as inventory grows. The smarter play is to weigh each model's features, and the competition's, against budget and mission, because price relief is not coming to do the deciding for them.