Dassault Aviation has delivered its 2,500th Falcon business jet, a Falcon 900LX which was handed over to a US customer at the company’s Little Rock, Arkansas completion centre. “Over the half century it has been in operation, the Falcon fleet has amassed an amazing 17.8 million hours of flight time with some 1,230 operators in
Dassault Falcon says its Falcon 5X business jet has completed its first flight ahead of the full flight test campaign that is slated to get underway in 2018. The two-hour flight took place at Dassault’s Bordeaux-Mérignac facility with test pilots Philippe Deleume and Philippe Rebourg in the flight deck of the Falcon 5X F-WFVX. Dassault
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) says an examination of the Beechcraft B200 Super King Air that crashed at Essendon Airport shortly after takeoff has found there were no pre-existing faults with the aircraft that could have contributed to the incident. The King Air VH-ZCR was operating a private charter flight to King Island. All
Hawker Pacific’s Kuala Lumpur workshop been named as an authorised service centre for Dassault Aviation’s Falcon business jets. The aircraft sales and support company’s manufacturing facility at Kuala Lumpur’s Subang Airport will be able to provide line maintenance services for the Falcon 8X, Falcon 7X, Falcon 2000 EX Easy- and Falcon 900 EX EASy- series
While there are plenty of commercial airline options for those whose business requires travel from Europe to Asia, that is not the case everywhere around the world. For example, corporate executives face limited air links when flying between China and Africa, or Asia to South America. The choice these folks face is either to undertake
Business aviation operator ExecuJet has taken over the Fixed Base Operations (FBO) at its Sydney Airport facility. The FBO was previously operated by Universal Aviation and includes a passenger lounge, private meeting rooms and a customs and border processing area. The facility was refurbished about a year ago. ExecuJet vice president for Asia Pacific Darren
