Posted Oct 19, 2022 6:45 AMUpdated Oct 19, 2022 12:51 PM
No one is a prophet in his own country. While business aviation is being targeted in France, one of the main attractions of the major global meeting of the sector – the NBAA show which begins this Tuesday in Orlando – is a French plane. To know the Falcon 6X the latest addition to Dassault Aviation, which is making its first public appearance, a few months before it enters service.
A highly anticipated new Falcon, since it offers the most spacious cabin on the market in its price range ($47 million) and state-of-the-art avionics. It must also allow Dassault Aviation to erase the failure of the 5X program, canceled along the way. And for now, all the lights are green. Nineteen months after the first flight, the program has entered “the final phase of certification, with flight tests carried out by pilots from the European Aviation Safety Agency and the American FAA”, announced its CEO, Eric Trappier at a press conference in Orlando.