Dassault Aviation
Dassault Aviation designs and manufactures Mirage and Rafale jet fighters for militaries, and it leads in the business aircraft market with its Falcon jets. Dassault Aviation is 100 percent privately owned. The French government transferred its 45.7% share to Aerospatiale in 1998. Half of the company is privately owned by the Dassault family. Dassault Aviation has been on the stock market for 28 years, but only four percent is owned by the public.
Since 1945, Dassault has delivered more than 7,000 civil and military aircraft to 73 countries, logging some 15 million hours in flight to date. This vast experience has allowed Dassault Aviation to build up considerable expertise in the design, development, production, sale and support of all types of aircraft. Dassault Aviation has staked out a solid reputation as industrial architect for complex airborne systems. Several key assets underpin this global success : expertise in emerging technologies ; an in-depth understanding of the customer's technical, operational and financial requirements ; and a comprehensive systems approach to meet cost, deadline and performance goals. Dassault Aviation is organized in multidisciplinary teams, a critical advantage in the management of complex programs. From design and development, to production and testing of airborne systems, Dassault Aviation deploys the full array of resources needed,covering both methods (concurrent engineering, risk management, early perception of finished products) and systems (numerical models, hybrid electronics integration center, anechoic chambers, dedicated flight test center control room, etc…).
In nearly 40 years, 1,500 Falcons have been built. They today account for nearly half of all up-market business aircraft, by value, delivered world-wide. In economic terms, the French share of work on a Falcon brings in more foreign currency than the French share of work on an Airbus 320. The North American market accounts for 50% of the company's civilian sales, and Dassault Aviation is one of the rare French companies with a strong American presence, through its Dassault Falcon Jet subsidiary, now thirty years old. The group's largest plant, which does the interior appointments and finish of Falcons, is in Little Rock, Arkansas.
The name “Dassault Falcon Jet” includes the following aircraft models: Dassault-Breguet Falcon 10 and Mercure 100C, Dassault-Aviation Mystere-Falcon series (20 series, 50, 200, 900), Fan Jet Falcon series, and Falcon 900EX. Starting from the Mystere-Falcon 20, which itself went through many versions, Dassault Aviation has developed in turn six models covering the whole range of business aviation needs. Each of these models has represented an additional technological step forward, benefiting not only from previous experience but also from the fallout of Dassault Aviation's experience in the military domain, in both studies and production.
Type Number built
Falcon 10 Prototype 3
Falcon 10 190
Falcon 100 36
Falcon 10/100 229
Falcon 20 Prototype 1
Falcon 20 180
Falcon 20 D 56
Falcon 20 E 59
Falcon 20 F 140
Falcon 20 G (HU 25) 42
Falcon 20 478
Falcon 200 38
Falcon 30 1
Falcon 2000 Development 1
Falcon 2000 149
Falcon 2000 150
Falcon 50 Prototype 1
Falcon 50 250
Falcon 50EX 65
Falcon 50 / 50EX 316
Falcon 900 Prototype 1
Falcon 900 103
Falcon 900B 74
Falcon 900C 13
Falcon 900 191
Falcon 900EX 97
Total, all Falcons 1500
The worldwide Falcon fleet is composed of ‘out of production’ aircraft (Falcon 10, Falcon 20, Falcon 200, Falcon 900), and ‘In-production’ aircraft (F900EX series, F2000, F2000EX series and F50 series).
