Falcon 2000S

Everything a charterer books a Falcon 2000 for is present here in full: a 314 in cabin, 92 in across and 74 in high, ten seats, and 131 cu ft of baggage across thirteen bags, moving at 493 kt — the highest top speed of the eleven heavy jets we charter, a figure this aircraft shares with the 2000LXS. What differs is reach. At 3,350 nm the 2000S covers a shorter sector than its sibling's 4,000 nm, and that single number is the entire distinction between the two.

Read plainly, that makes the 2000S the right half of the pair whenever the routing does not need the extra 650 nm. The cabin does not shrink to match the range; a party of ten gets the same 74 in of headroom, the same width across the shoulders and the same hold behind them. Among heavy jets this is a low-capacity, high-comfort aircraft rather than a group carrier — ten seats against sixteen in the Gulfstreams and the Challenger 850 — and it is specified by charterers who would rather have the room than the seat count. On the sectors it suits, nothing in the class is better proportioned.

The cabin, without the extra reach