Dassault Falcon 2000S

A brief history of the Dassault Falcon family

• The Mystere 20, which would later be known as the Falcon 20 flies on 4 May 1963.
• In 1965, the Falcon 20 receives its French type certfication.
• The first Falcon 10 prototype flies in  1970.
• The Falcon 50 first flight takes place in November 1970 and receives its US type cerification in 1979.
• In 1983 Dassault annouce the launch of the Falcon 900 tri-jet. The Falcon 900 first flight takes place the following year and the aircraft receives its French type certification in 1986.
• The first of a new breed of  "medium large" business jets, the Falcon 2000 is laucnhed at the Paris Air Show in 1989 and certified in 1994.
• Dassault launched its flagship Falcon 7x in 2005 and the aircraft received both in EASA and FAA type certification in April 2007

From the archive

• FLIGHT TEST: Dassault Falcon 900EX -Easy does it
• FLIGHT TEST: Dassault Falcon 7X - Fast and easy
• FLIGHT TEST & CUTAWAY: Dassault Falcon 2000LX - Winning wings
• FLIGHT TEST: Dassault 900LX -Do winglets improve performance?
• FLIGHT TEST: Third way: a flight test of the Falcon 7X's EVS/HUD