NextGen Simulations’ EMB-110 Bandeirante has been a fixture of the MSFS ecosystem since its early days on the platform, but fans of the Colombian solo developer have had little to go on since a December 2025 update promised a release sometime in January or February. That window came and went, but now, in a lengthy development post, Carlos Gómez has broken the silence in a big way: the EMB-110 Bandeirante v2 is targeting a mid-June 2026 launch on the MSFS 2024 in-game Marketplace, initially for PC and Xbox.
A ground-up rebuild for MSFS 2024
The scale of the changes between the MSFS 2020 version and this new release does not seem trivial. The developer says the changelog alone runs to at least five A4 pages, extracted from documentation that is currently 90% complete. V2 is being presented as a fundamentally reworked product that takes full advantage of what MSFS 2024 offers developers.
Among the most significant changes are the aircraft’s core systems. The developer says the Electrical, Hydraulic, Fuel, and Pneumatic/ECS systems have all received major overhauls, made possible by Asobo’s more modular systems architecture in MSFS 2024.
The v2 also takes advantage of MSFS 2024’s Modular SimObjects architecture, which allows multiple aircraft variants to share common assets under a single SimObject rather than requiring entirely separate packages.
The Bandeirante v2 ships with four variants, with Gómez noting that more than half of all assets are shared across them. Wings, engines, the H-tail and V-tail, cockpit, and seating are all common across variants, with differences limited to fuselages, cabins, and doors.
The soundscape gets a significant upgrade
One of the areas González Gómez highlighted specifically is the audio. The soundscape has been substantially reworked since the MSFS 2020 release, something he describes as one of the hardest development challenges given the volume of critical feedback the original received. A dedicated YouTube video covering the updated sounds has drawn positive responses from the community, and the developer says most of the bugs highlighted in that video have since been resolved. Any remaining issues, he says, will be addressed through post-release patches.
He also mentioned he will consider a future feature request for a headphones noise-cancelling simulation for post-release updates, and that backporting the improved soundscape to the MSFS 2020 version is now on the table, following the positive reception.
Pricing and rollout
The EMB-110 Bandeirante v2 will launch at $34.99 / €34.99 (excluding VAT) for new buyers. Existing owners of the MSFS 2020 version, regardless of where they originally purchased it, can upgrade at a discounted price of $13.99 / €13.99. The developer says this upgrade pricing applies to both Marketplace and non-Marketplace customers.
For Marketplace users, there will also be a rental option: seven days for $4.99 / €4.99, with no free trial available.
The launch will be Marketplace-first. González Gómez says the priority order is driven by a desire to combat software piracy, so third-party store availability will follow only after the product has been released on all supported platforms: PC, Xbox, and eventually PS5. The PS5 situation is more complex, as it depends either on Microsoft and Sony enabling general third-party content ingestion for that platform, or on the developer receiving a direct invitation to publish there.
What about MSFS 2020, and what comes next?
Gómez also addressed the longer-term direction of the studio. Citing the latest Navigraph Flight Sim Community Survey, he confirmed that MSFS 2024 has now overtaken MSFS 2020 as the dominant platform, and that the upcoming Saab projects will be prioritised for MSFS 2024 development. Whether the Saabs arrive for MSFS 2020 at all remains undecided: if they do, they will be the final products the studio ever makes for the 2020 sim, with everything beyond going exclusively to MSFS 2024. If they don’t, the EMB-110 will be the only NextGen Simulations product that ever released on MSFS 2020.
As for a Saab release window, the developer is not committing to anything firm yet, but is targeting Q3 or Q4 2027 for one or both Saabs, though that is subject to change. Still a long way to go!
