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.[2]
The Dassault Falcon 50 was later updated as the Falcon 50EX, the first of which flew in 1996,[4] and the last of which was delivered in 2008.[1] The Falcon 50EX features improved engines and other enhancements to give further range improvements to an already long-range jet. The Falcon 50EX designation applies to serial numbers 253–352, which marks the end of the production line for the Falcon 50/50EX.
The last Falcon 50EX was built in late 2007 and delivered in early 2008.
Hervé Leprince-Ringuet and Gérard Joyeuse took the Dassault Falcon 50‘s maiden flight. It was powered by three Garrett TFE 731-3 jet engines, and flew out of Bordeaux-Mérignac on November 7, 1976.
Demand in the United States for longer flight ranges prompted design work on a new aircraft in 1974. This new model, the Dassault Falcon 50, was to break away from the Falcon 30-40 range. It needed to fly 3 400 NM (6 300 km) on FAR 121 reserves. That equates with crossing the North Atlantic or the United States non-stop.
It became the Falcon family’s first transoceanic aircraft. Before it, no other business aircraft could fly across the Atlantic ocean in keeping with the regulations inherent to the transport public.
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Full Specifications
Exterior
- Exterior Height: 22 ft 9 in
- Wing Span: 61 ft 8 in
- Length: 60 ft 8 in
- External Baggage: 90 cu ft
Interior
- Cabin Height: 5 ft 9 In
- Cabin Width: 6 ft 1 In
- Cabin Length: 22 ft 11 In
- Cabin Volume: 569 cu ft
- Internal Baggage: 25 cu ft
Occupancy
- Crew: 2
- Passengers: 9
Operating Weights
- Max T/O Weight: 38320 Lb
- Max Landing Weight: 35715 Lb
- Operating Weight: 22000 Lb
- Fuel Capacity: 15520 lbs Lb
- Payload W/Full Fuel: 1280 Lb
- Max Payload: 3570 Lb
Range
- Normal Range: 3057 nm
- Max Range: 3200 nm
- Service Ceiling: 31000 ft
Distances
- Balanced Field Length: 5000 ft
- Landing Distance: 3500 ft
Performance
- Rate of Climb: 3430 fpm
- Climb Rate One Engine Inop: 601 fpm
- Max Speed: 480 kts
- Normal Cruise: 431 kts
- Economy Cruise: 410 kts
- Cost per Hour: $ 4,444.65
Power Plant
- Engines: 3
- Engine Mfg: Honeywell Engines
- Engine Model: TFE 731-3-1C
