Dassault Falcon 50

what is it?

The Dassault Falcon 50 is a French super-midsize, long-range business jet, featuring a trijet layout with an S-duct air intake for the central engine. It has the same fuselage cross-section and similar capacity as the earlier twin-engined Falcon 20, but was a new design that is area ruled and includes a more advanced wing design.

🔎How to recognise it: 3 jet engines · 18.9 m wingspan

base stats

• speed 1,015 km/htop speed
• range 5,695 kmwithout refuelling
• seats 9passengers
• size 18 tmax take-off weight
• built 352made in total

Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).

fun facts

• 🎂First flew 50 years ago, in 1976.
• 🏎️Top speed is 7.8× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
• 🚗Wingspan of 18.9 m: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
• 🐘Fully loaded it can weigh as much as 3 African elephants (~6 t each).
• 🌍Range of 5,695 km: 32× Amsterdam to Brussels.
• 🏔️Can fly 1.7× higher than Mount Everest (8,849 m).

jet: Gas turbine pushing air out the back (turbofan or turbojet): fast and high-flying.

spec sheet

first flight

1976-11

introduced

1979

status

still flying

number built

352

role

business jet

origin

🇫🇷 France

makers

Dassault Aviation

engines

3× Honeywell TFE 731-40

crew

2

passengers

9

length

18.5 m

wingspan

18.9 m

height

7 m

max take-off weight

18 t

top speed

1,015 km/h

cruise speed

903 km/h

range

5,695 km

ceiling

15,000 m

ICAO code

FA50

Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.

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