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Daher Aircraft To Establish Office in Brazil
By: Richard Pedicini
Caption: Aircraft sales for this region will continue to be conducted from the U.S.
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Daher Aircraft is opening an office near São Paulo Congonhas Airport to support and expand its TBM and Kodiak fleet in Brazil, though aircraft sales for this region will still be conducted from the U.S.
Daher, which announced the move yesterday at LABACE 2025, views this as an opportune moment for the Kodiak. Products that serve the same market as aircraft like the Cessna Caravan have long delivery times.
Some 60 TBMs are Brazilian-owned, though not all are registered there, and about seven Kodiaks are in the country. The TBM fleet is almost entirely operated by professional pilots, with only one or two owner-pilots. Both single-engine turboprop families appeal to the rough field conditions common to agribusiness users, though they have other uses—an organization at Santarém on the Amazon uses two float-equipped Kodiaks for medevac operations.
Daher Aircraft v-p Jeffrey Lenorovitz told AIN that Daher’s service network will be expanding in Brazil. The main service center for TBM is in Uberlandia, Minas Gerais. This location was originally picked by MG-based Algar when it represented the TBM line, retained when Voar took over that representation, and continues to service customers when Voar decided to stop selling the aircraft.
Negotiations are currently underway for an additional center in the Brazilian southeast, he said. Meanwhile, the Kodiak is supported in Brazil by MTX in Sorocaba. An out-of-base maintenance license allows it to support the Amazon organization with the Kodiak floatplanes.
The multi-mission capability and long endurance of the Kodiak make it attractive to many police and other public operators in the U.S. However, the Brazilian public bid process is notoriously difficult, so Daher has yet to penetrate this market segment in Brazil.
“Provide focus” is how Lenorovitz describes Daher Aircraft’s strategy in Brazil and the role of the new company office that will be near ANAC’s São Paulo offices.