A super-midsize jet with a 1.83 m stand-up cabin, eight to ten seats, four berths and 5,778 km of published range - which is 278 km more than the longest route on this website. It is the smallest aircraft we list that reaches everywhere we fly, and that combination is the whole point of it.
REQUEST A QUOTEEvery figure below is copied from the specification table on our own fleet page for this type. Our page also describes an interior developed jointly with BMW Group Designworks, with a passenger area, a bathroom, a baggage compartment and a separate compartment for hand luggage.
5,778 km of published range against a longest published route of 5,500 km. That margin - 278 km - is the most interesting number on this page, because it is the point where a specification stops being comfortable and starts being a planning question.
Take the two figures at face value and the Legacy 500 reaches every route published on this website, including London to Dubai at 5,500 km. Take them seriously and the picture is more careful. Published range is a still-air figure at optimum cruise with a sensible payload. Ten passengers, a full hold and a winter headwind all spend some of it, and 278 km of margin is about twenty minutes of cruise. That is not a comfortable reserve on the longest sector on the site, and we would not pretend otherwise.
This matters because our own price research found published market prices for exactly that pairing on a nine-seat cabin of this class - which tells you the sector does get flown on aircraft this size. It gets flown when the party is small, the luggage is light and the wind is behaving. It does not get flown that way in February with ten on board.
Step back one route and the arithmetic relaxes immediately. Amsterdam to Dubai at 5,169 km leaves 609 km in hand. Geneva to Dubai at 4,920 km leaves 858 km. Zurich at 4,769 km and Milan at 4,662 km leave a thousand kilometres or more. Dubai to Munich at 4,565 km and Vienna to Dubai at 4,224 km are comfortable by any measure. And every European and Mediterranean route we publish - the longest of which is London to Malaga at 1,721 km - is inside a third of the range.
The honest summary: on paper this aircraft flies everything on the site. In practice, on the single longest sector, ask the question rather than assume the answer - the operating crew plan against the real weight, the real wind and the real alternates, and on that one route their number is the one that decides whether it is a nonstop.
| Published route | Distance | Nonstop? | Margin against the published range |
|---|---|---|---|
| London to Dubai | 5,500 km | On paper only | Inside by 278 km - roughly 20 minutes of cruise, which a full cabin or a headwind can spend |
| Amsterdam to Dubai | 5,169 km | Yes | Inside by 609 km |
| Geneva to Dubai | 4,920 km | Yes | Inside by 858 km |
| Zurich to Dubai | 4,769 km | Yes, with margin | Inside by 1,009 km |
| Milan to Dubai | 4,662 km | Yes, with margin | Inside by 1,116 km |
| Dubai to Munich | 4,565 km | Yes, with margin | Inside by 1,213 km |
| Vienna to Dubai | 4,224 km | Yes, with margin | Inside by 1,554 km |
| London to Larnaca | 3,288 km | Yes, with margin | Inside by 2,490 km |
| Athens to Dubai | 3,273 km | Yes, with margin | Inside by 2,505 km |
| London to Paphos | 3,228 km | Yes, with margin | Inside by 2,550 km |
| London to Mykonos | 2,568 km | Yes, with margin | Inside by 3,210 km |
| Larnaca to Nice | 2,461 km | Yes, with margin | Inside by 3,317 km |
Below 2,400 km the question stops being interesting: every remaining route on this website is inside the range of this aircraft with room to spare. These are the mid-length ones, from about an hour and a quarter to two and a half hours by our own published flight-time estimates.
Distances are great-circle figures between airport coordinates from the OurAirports open dataset, retrieved 23 August 2026. Flight times quoted anywhere on this page are estimates from a model fitted to the flight times Diamond Executive Aero Services already publishes, not measured block times. The 19 routes shorter than 700 km are listed on the route index. Range figures are the ones published on our own fleet page and assume still air, optimum cruise and a sensible payload.
8.17 m long, 2.08 m wide, 1.83 m high, eight to ten seats and four berths. The height is the headline: a stand-up cabin is not standard in this class.
Standing up. 1.83 m of cabin height. That is six feet, and it is the same figure our fleet page publishes for the large Legacy 600 and 650. Most adults stand upright. For comparison, the Citation XLS+ and Citation Sovereign on our own fleet page are listed at 1.73 m, and the Hawker 800XP at 1.75 m - the difference between standing and stooping.
Width. 2.08 m, against 2.19 m for the Challenger 350/300 and 2.18 m for the Gulfstream G280/200 in the same comparison block on our fleet page, and against 1.68 m for the Citation types a class below. It sits at the wide end of what a super-midsize cabin offers.
Length. 8.17 m - longer than the Challenger 350/300 at 7.68 m, the Gulfstream G280/200 at 7.87 m and the Challenger 650/605/604 at 7.77 m, all of which our fleet page lists as its neighbours. In a cabin of this width, length is what turns eight seats into eight seats with somewhere to put your feet.
Sleeping. Four berths. On a Gulf sector of four to seven hours with a party of four that is everybody lying flat; with a party of ten it is a rota.
Luggage. 3.11 m³ in the hold, and our page also describes a separate compartment for hand luggage. That is a normal super-midsize figure - the Challenger 350/300 is listed at 3.00 m³ and the Gulfstream G280/200 at 3.40 m³. It is not a ski-season aircraft for ten people.
Crew. A flight attendant is carried, and there is a bathroom on board. On the long sectors this aircraft can reach, both matter more than they do on a European hop.
Cabin dimensions, berth counts, baggage volumes and the flight-attendant line are all taken from the specification tables published on this website, including the comparison figures quoted for other types.
The aircraft and the cabin as they are, and the seating plan underneath. These are the images we publish for this type.
These are our own figures for this aircraft, not somebody else’s estimate. They are whole-aircraft prices for the sectors named, at the passenger count shown, and they move with the date, the positioning of the aircraft and the fuel price on the day. Treat them as the size of the number rather than as a quotation: only a written quotation against your dates is a price. Our own guide rate for the type is EUR 5,600 per flight hour; the sector figures below are whole-aircraft prices and are not that rate multiplied by the flight time.
| Sector | Passengers | Price | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Larnaca - Dubai | 4 | 13000 € | 03:18 |
| Larnaca - Mykonos | 4 | 5500 € | 01:24 |
| Larnaca - Athens | 4 | 4000 € | 01:00 |
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These are the types our own fleet page groups alongside the Embraer Legacy 500. Every figure quoted below is from their specification tables on this website.
Listed at 5,926 km, 8-9 passengers, 2.19 m of cabin width and 3.00 m³ of hold. The closest comparison we carry.
See the Challenger 350/300 ›Listed at 6,667 km, 10 passengers and a 1.91 m cabin height - taller cabin and longer legs, same broad class.
See the Gulfstream G280/200 ›Listed at 7,408 km and 9-12 passengers with a 2.41 m cabin. A step up in class rather than a like-for-like alternative.
See the Challenger 650/605/604 ›The complete fleet is on the aircraft index. Also useful: all published routes, current empty legs, jet sharing, how chartering works.