Falcon 7X
| Falcon 7X/8X | |
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| A Falcon 7X, landing gear down, flaps deployed | |
| Role | Intercontinental business jet |
| National origin | France |
| Manufacturer | Dassault Aviation |
| Designer | Richard Petri |
| First flight | 5 May 2005 (7X) 6 February 2015 (8X) |
| Introduction | 8X : 5 October 2016 with Amjet Executive |
| Status | In production |
| Primary users | 7X : Flying Group (Antwerp), 5 7X, 4 : Shell Oil, Dassault Falcon Service, Volkswagen AG |
| Produced | 2005-present |
| Number built | 260+ (7X), 4 (8X) |
| Program cost | US$ 2.1 Billion |
| Unit cost | |
| Developed from | Falcon 900 |
The Dassault Falcon 7X is a large-cabin, long-range trijet manufactured by Dassault Aviation, the flagship offering of its business jet line. It was first presented to the public at the 2005 Paris Air Show. The Falcon 8X is derived from the 7X with longer range afforded by engine optimizing, aerodynamic refinements and an increase in fuel capacity. It is one of only two trijets in production, the other being the Falcon 900. It features an S-duct central engine.
The aircraft has received its type certification from both the Federal Aviation Administration and European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) on 27 April 2007. The first 7X, MSN05, entered service on 15 June 2007. The hundredth was delivered in November 2010. It conducted high altitude airport tests at 14,500 ft in Daocheng in 2014.
In 2001, the Falcon 7X, at approximately $35 million (preproduction order price), was nearly $10 million cheaper than its nearest competitors in the long-range, large cabin market segment, including the Gulfstream G550 and Bombardier Global Express. Its 2007 price was $41 million. In 2008, the smaller Global Express 5000 was priced at $40M.
The Falcon 7X is a three-engined cantilever monoplane with a low-positioned, highly swept wing. It has a horizontal stabiliser at mid-height and a retractable tricycle landing gear, and three rear-mounted Pratt & Whitney PW307A turbofan engines : two on the side of the fuselage and one in a center position, and room for 20 passengers and two crew. It is the first production Falcon jet to offer winglets.
It is the first fully fly-by-wire business jet and is equipped with the same avionics suite, the Honeywell Primus Epic "Enhanced Avionics System" (EASy), that was used on the Falcon 900EX and later on the Falcon 2000EX.
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