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60 years of Falcon

This year, Dassault celebrates 60 years of Falcon Business Jets, as advanced new models prepare to take the stage.

This year, Dassault celebrates 60 years of Falcon Business Jets, as advanced new models prepare to take the stage.

“For an aircraft to fly well, it must be beautiful,” Marcel Dassault famously said. Already well known for the sleek Mirage fighters, Dassault –the man and the company– proved the adage once again on May 4, 1963 with the first flight of the Mystère 20, the company’s first business jet. With an eye toward the sizable American market, it was soon rebranded the Falcon 20.

Sixty years and more than 2,700 business jets later, Dassault Aviation continues a tradition of building beautiful, advanced-technology aircraft.