Dassault Falcon 5X Coming Together Quickly
Center fuselage section for the first 5X has been joined and full fuselage will be completed this summer.
Dassault Aviation recently joined the Falcon 5X’s main center fuselage subassemblies and expects to have a complete fuselage together this summer. The 5,200-nm jet, powered by a pair of Snecma Silvercrest engines, is expected to fly in the first half of next year. (Photo: Dassault Aviation)
Dassault Aviation recently joined the Falcon 5X’s main center fuselage subassemblies and expects to have a complete fuselage together this summer. The 5,200-nm jet, powered by a pair of Snecma Silvercrest engines, is expected to fly in the first half of next year. (Photo: Dassault Aviation)

Dassault Aviation joined the Falcon 5X’s main center fuselage subassemblies–the front and rear lower subassemblies and the upper subassembly–in mid-April, the company announced on Thursday. This is a milestone for the 5,200-nm wide-cabin twinjet, which the French OEM expects to fly in the first half of next year and enter service in 2017.