Aircraft
Falcon 20: Je Suis Une Légende
The transformational Dassault Falcon 20 turns 60 this year and pioneered a number of technologies found today in business jets of all types.
Dassault Falcon 20
The Dassault Falcon 20 twinjet (FA-20) achieved many milestones in its 60 years of existence. (Photo: Dassault)

With used prices that start as low as $176,000, the eight-to-nine passenger (executive) Dassault Falcon 20 twinjet (FA-20) was the first civil aircraft to fly on 100 percent biofuel (2012); the first and only business jet to fly with an afterburner, albeit experimentally (1988); and it formed the initial fleet for Federal Express in 1973 (now FedEx).

Designed in 1961 to military specifications with an unlimited-life airframe and components, the Mystère 20 has reached its 60th anniversary since its first fight on May 4, 1963. It was test-flown to Mach 1.

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