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Dassault Falcon Soars In Asia Pacific

At Dassault Falcon’s ABACE 2013 press conference yesterday the news was all good. “In January we formed a full Chinese subsidiary known as Dassault Falcon Business Services Company, located in Beijing,” Jean Rosanvallon, CEO of Dassault Falcon, told AIN. The French company has been doing well in Asia, with its flagship 7X aircraft, in particular, selling very well. Rosanvallon said that, as of 2011, China has become Dassault Falcon’s number-one market, even ahead of the U.S.

The French aircraft OEM has also put its toe in the water on the manufacturing side this past decade, with both the forward fuel tank on the Falcon 2000 series and the 7X’s T3 section being built by China’s Avic. “We have no plans for anything like final assembly [in China],” said Rosanvallon. “We looked at it with Avic a few years ago, but decided then it was premature.”