Dassault

Dassault Aviation assembles its Falcon jets at Mérignac, applying to them the flight-control engineering it developed for French combat aircraft.

Dassault Aviation traces to 1929 and the Société des Avions Marcel Bloch, taking its present name after the Second World War. It is headquartered in Paris, with industrial sites at Saint-Cloud and at Mérignac near Bordeaux, where Falcon final assembly is carried out. The Falcon programme opened in 1963 with the Falcon 20. Combat aircraft — the Mirage and Rafale lines — are built inside the same company, and two specific results of that proximity sit in the business-jet range: digital fly-by-wire flight controls, introduced on the Falcon 7X, and head-up displays fitted to the Falcon 2000.

Private Jet Royalty carries six Falcons, and they occupy two categories and no others: three Heavy Jets and three Ultra Long Range aircraft, an even split. No Dassault light jet, midsize jet or turboprop appears in this fleet. Range across the six runs from 3,350 to 6,450 nautical miles, so none of them is a short-sector aeroplane. The representation is narrow by design. Dassault is present here in the sizes where the flight-control and aerodynamic work above has something to act on, and it is absent from the classes underneath them.