May 4 marks the 60th anniversary of the inaugural flight of the Mystère 20, Dassault Aviation’s first business jet and the first member of what would become the Falcon jet family. Every decade since, Paris-based Dassault (Booth Z72, Static AD_02) has introduced a new Falcon, each raising the bar for performance, comfort, and efficiency. More than 2,700 Falcons have been delivered worldwide.
The Falcon family’s patriarch, aircraft designer Marcel Bloch, born in 1892, was among the welcoming throng at Paris Le Bourget Airport when Charles Lindbergh concluded his nonstop transatlantic flight in 1927. Interned in Buchenwald during World War II for refusing to collaborate on aircraft production under the Nazi-occupation government, Marcel adopted the surname Dassault—the nom de guerre of his elder brother, who served in the French Resistance—after his liberation from the concentration camp.
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