While Embraer’s third-quarter numbers, released yesterday, showed “its best gross margin in several years,” the company’s 13 executive jet deliveries were the same as in the first quarter and seven below the second quarter. Deliveries in the third quarter–11 light jets and two large jets–were also five below those logged in the third quarter last year. Embraer expects deliveries in the fourth quarter to show a substantial jump, typical of industry as a whole in the final period of the year.