Embraer jet hitches a ride in the movie Top Gun

The movie “Top Gun: Maverick” is getting closer and closer to release, and a Brazilian jet got a special livery to celebrate Tom Cruise’s new feature.

The new film follows the most watched and famous long of aviation, and brings back Tom Cruise in the role of Pete Mitchell, known by his codename Maverick.

While on the big screen the renowned pilot flies F-18 and F-14 fighter jets, in real life the Top Gun paint job is stamped on an Embraer ERJ-135 jet, which almost flew in Brazil.

Registered N259JX, the jet was produced in 2001 under the order of American Eagle, a regional subsidiary of American Airlines, where it flew until 2014, when it was stocked.

Awaiting a new owner, it was leased to the Brazilian company Lynx Táxi Aéreo, with the Brazilian registration PP-WTH, along with another ERJ-135, registration PR-WTH.

Both aircraft, however, were not actually operated by Lynx Táxi Aéreo, and were only stored in the American desert with the livery of the Brazilian company, as shown in the photo above. Lynx, during its time of operation, flew only helicopters in Brazil.

Because of this, the PR-WTH was passed on to other operators and today it is in the UK, in a beautiful black paint job, while the PP-WTH went to the American air taxi company JetSuiteX, known as JSX.

JSX, in turn, provides premium flights that any passenger can buy, and at a very affordable price, being known for being a boutique airline.

And it was with this JSX that Paramount Pictures closed a deal to be the movie’s official airline. The new paintwork prints the logo of the film, leaving the fuselage of the plane almost entirely black, but the special highlight is on the tail, where the design of Tom Cruise’s helmet used in the film was placed.

The ERJ-135 aircraft will fly along the west coast of the US at JSX destinations. The film opens on May 27 in the American market and in Brazil.