Case Study

Embraer · MRO Americas 2026

Aftermarket deals get done at a table, not an aisle. So the booth put the tables upstairs.

MRO Americas is where airlines, lessors, and OEMs sit down and negotiate maintenance for whole fleets. For 2026 in Orlando, Pure Exhibits built Embraer Services & Support a 25 × 40 double-deck exhibit: a walk-in E-Jet cabin mock-up and program walls at floor level for the traffic, glass-walled meeting rooms behind them, and a full second storey — conference room, lounge, coffee bar — for the conversations that actually move a fleet contract.

Front elevation of the Embraer 25x40 double-deck exhibit at MRO Americas 2026 in Orlando with overhead Embraer beam sign, We Make It Happen wall, and cabin mock-up arch
25 × 40
Double-Deck Exhibit
Orlando
Orange County Convention Center
April 21–23, 2026
Show Dates
17,000+
Aviation Maintenance Professionals

Two floors of business on one footprint

MRO Americas is the largest gathering of the aviation maintenance community in the world — 17,000+ professionals, nearly 1,000 exhibitors, three days at the Orange County Convention Center. Embraer’s Services & Support division came to sell programs, not parts: pool programs, collaborative inventory planning, cabin and interior upgrades — long-cycle agreements decided by operators and lessors across a table.

That splits a booth’s job in two. It has to work the aisle — stop traffic, put the product in front of a passing engineer, hold the “We Make It Happen” brand at hall scale — and it has to host confidential, hours-long negotiations at the same time, in the same 1,000 square feet, without either function crowding the other. The answer was to stop sharing the floor and build a second one.

Three-quarter view of the Embraer double-deck booth at MRO Americas 2026 with the eagle-nose E-Jet graphic pillar and cabin mock-up entrance

Aisle below, boardroom above

Side elevation of the Embraer double-deck booth at MRO Americas 2026 with E-Jet flight mural above ground-floor glass-walled meeting rooms
01

The Two-Storey Frame

A 25 × 40 rectangle carrying a full upper level, capped by a hanging beam sign that reads down every aisle. The ground floor stayed open along the front and glazed along the side; the upper floor became private by definition. Same footprint, twice the usable program — and a structure the neighbouring single-storey builds could not match for presence.

02

The Cabin Mock-Up

A rounded arch opening onto a full-scale E-Jet cabin section — overhead bins, mood lighting, two production seats, a galley cart. On a floor of parts and paperwork, a piece of the aircraft you can sit in is the stop nobody walks past, and the natural start of an interiors conversation.

03

The Eagle-Nose Pillars

Canted graphic pillars carrying the E-Jet “eagle” livery head-on — a fifteen-foot bird of prey staring down the aisle — with the same aircraft banking through clouds on the long wall. The taper is deliberate: the pillars widen at the top, so the structure leans into the hall instead of standing back from it.

Upper-deck conference room inside the Embraer double-deck booth at MRO Americas 2026 with long white table, black leather chairs, and aviation photography
04

The Upper-Deck Boardroom

Up a carpeted stair: a ten-seat conference table, wall monitor, linear pendants, hangar photography under glass. A room where a fleet-services agreement can be walked through page by page — above the noise, out of sight, with the aisle traffic still working the floor below.

05

The Lounge and Coffee Bar

Alongside the boardroom, a softer register — white sofa and armchair, a round table, orchids, a coffee and pastry bar under a slatted ceiling detail. The room for the pre-meeting and the post-meeting: where the operator waits, decompresses, and stays fifteen minutes longer than planned.

Corner of the Embraer booth at MRO Americas 2026 with Embraer Pool Program LED wall, We Make It Happen dimensional letters, and reception counter
06

The Program Walls

Two corner LED walls doing the commercial talking — the Embraer Pool Program on one, ECIP Collaborative Inventory Planning on the other — each over a reception counter with an illuminated arrow. Animated, legible from the aisle, and the reason a services booth needs no rack of brochures.

Corner of the Embraer double-deck booth at MRO Americas 2026 with the eagle-nose E-Jet livery graphic and glass meeting rooms beneath the flight mural
The completed double-deck at MRO Americas 2026 — the eagle on the corner, meeting rooms behind glass, the second floor above it all.

The build at a glance

25 × 40
Double-Deck Exhibit — 1,000 sq ft Footprint
Two
Storeys — Show Floor Below, Meeting Floor Above
17,000+
Professionals at the World’s Largest MRO Gathering
1,000
Exhibitors on the Orlando Floor
MRO Americas 2026
Orange County Convention Center, Orlando  ·  April 21–23, 2026

Traffic downstairs, contracts upstairs

A services business exhibits differently from a parts business: the sale is a relationship and a multi-year agreement, and the booth has to be able to hold both the first handshake and the fourth meeting. Splitting the program by floor did that cleanly — the cabin, the eagle, and the program walls kept the aisle working all day, while the boardroom and lounge upstairs ran back-to-back sessions with no visual or acoustic bleed from the hall.

Double-deck builds also make a statement a single-storey island cannot, however large: at MRO Americas, height reads as commitment. For another Pure Exhibits build in the Embraer family, see Eve Air Mobility at Verticon 2026.

When the floor isn’t enough, build a second one

Double-deck exhibits double the program without doubling the footprint — and they read as commitment from across the hall. Pure Exhibits designs, engineers, and installs double-deck and large custom builds for aerospace, MRO, and industrial brands at MRO Americas, NBAA, Farnborough and beyond, with fixed, transparent pricing.