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Dassault Falcon 2000: Dassault’s Most Successful Business Jets

13Feb

By Salomón MarcoNo Comments

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Dassault Falcon 2000: Dassault’s Most Successful Business Jets

Today, Dassault is most famous for its trijet business jets. However, this has not stopped Dassault from producing twinjet business jets such as their famous Dassault Falcon 2000. As of the time of writing, Dassault has sold well over 600 copies of the Falcon 2000. This makes it not only the most successful Dassault business jet of all time, but also one of the most successful business jets of all time too! (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Development In 1984, Dassault released its famous Falcon 900 trijet. The Falcon 900 was itself developed from the Falcon 50, itself a development on the Falcon 20, which was released in 1965. As a trijet, the Falcon 900 was more expensive to operate than its twinjet competitors. Operators of the Falcon 90...

Hawker 800: The World’s Most Diverse Business Jet

6Feb

By Christopher HarrowNo Comments

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Hawker 800: The World’s Most Diverse Business Jet

Today, the Hawker 800 is one of the world's most common business jets. It is a favorite of corporations, celebrities and charter companies alike, and has been prominently featured in a number of TV shows and movies. In its nearly 30 years of production, the Hawker 800 has proven itself to be one of the most popular business jets, selling over 650 copies. This is more than the similarly sized Learjet 45, Falcon 900 and Challenger 300. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Development In May 1981, British Aerospace, were looking to strengthen their BAe 125 Domini family of business jets. In particular, sales of their famed BAe 125 Domini family had begun to slow. The introduction of newer mid and long-range business jets such as the Learjet 35 an...

Hawker 400: The World’s Most Developed Business Jet!

20Jan

By Gareth SeagullNo Comments

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Hawker 400: The World’s Most Developed Business Jet!

Today, by most accounts, the Hawker 400 is the most overdeveloped business jet in the world. A total of three different aircraft manufacturers have helped to develop the jet since the 1970's! Partly thanks to this, the Hawker has sold 951 copies over a period of 31 years. This makes the most produced business jets in history, ahead of the incredibly popular G650, Cessna Citation XLS and the Global Express family. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Development In the late 1970's, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries began to develop new jet-powered business jet as a step up from their turboprop MU-2. Mitsubishi designated this new jet as the MU-300 Diamond. Mitsubishi would build the MU-300 in the US, in order to fast track FAA approval. However, fina...

Dassault Falcon 900: Dassault’s Best Private Jet Yet!

2Jan

By Charles YongzhengNo Comments

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Dassault Falcon 900: Dassault’s Best Private Jet Yet!

Today, Dassault is known for making some of the best business jets currently for sale. For the longest time, the Dassault Falcon 900 has been among these jets, often leading them from the front! Dassault were among the first aircraft manufacturers to produce business jets, producing the Dassault Mystère 20. The Mystère 20, otherwise known as the Falcon 20, is often cited as one of the best and first business jets! (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Development Since the 1960's, Dassault had developed some of the leading business jets of its day, starting with the immensely successful Dassault Falcon 20. In the 1970's, it had released the Dassault Falcon 50, which sold even better than the Falcon 20! However, the late 1970's had yielded a number ...

Dassault Falcon 50: Dassault’s Most Famous Jet Yet!

16Dec

By Alya KulikovaNo Comments

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Dassault Falcon 50: Dassault’s Most Famous Jet Yet!

Today, Dassault is known for making some of the most famous and most expensive business jets currently on the market. Perhaps its most famous jet was the Dassault Falcon 50. Dassault has been in the business jet industry since almost the beginning, having created one of the first private jets, in the form of the Falcon 20. This is a jet that would serve as the basis of the Falcon 50! (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Development Dassault had released the Dassault Falcon 20 (otherwise known as the Mystère 20) in 1965. As with most other early business jets, the Falcon 20 was immensely successful, selling over 500 copies. However, by the mid-1970's, other business jets like the Lockheed JetStar had been introduced. Many of these business jets we...

Lockheed JetStar: Lockheed’s Only Business Jet

28Nov

By Christopher Harrow4 Comments

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Lockheed JetStar: Lockheed’s Only Business Jet

For much of its history, Lockheed, and its successor, Lockheed Martin, is/was known primarily for their military aircraft. However, The Lockheed JetStar was Lockheed's attempt to break into the corporate jet market. As one of the first business jets, the Lockheed JetStar was originally quite successful, selling 202 copies of the aircraft over the course of 19 years. Even as the aircraft approaches its sixtieth birthday, there are still a few flying! (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Development In the late 1950's, the USAF became interested in a small jet-powered aircraft that could be used as a basic trainer. On top of these trainer duties, it could be used to transport high ranking officers to and from the battlefield. As such, Lockheed desi...

Learjet 60: Learjet’s Long Range Luxury…

11Nov

By Charles YongzhengNo Comments

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Learjet 60: Learjet’s Long Range Luxury…

For 21 years, between 1991 and 2012 the Learjet 60 was Learjet division of Bombardier's longest range business jet. However, in 2012, after twenty years of production, Learjet pulled the plug on the Learjet 60. Nevertheless, almost a decade later, most of the original four hundred Learjets are still flying. For most of them, they are in the hands of the people who originally bought them, although many are on the secondary market. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Development In 1981, Learjet released their latest business jet, the Learjet 55, itself being derived from the first ever business jet, the Learjet 23. This aircraft originally sold very well, but by the end of the 1990's, sales began to slow. Learjet attempted to create new variant...

Learjet 45: Learjet’s Most Famous Private Jet Yet

24Oct

By Gareth SeagullNo Comments

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Learjet 45: Learjet’s Most Famous Private Jet Yet

When it was introduced, the Learjet 45 was among the most successful private jets of its time. To this day, the Learjet 45 is Learjet's second best selling private jet, behind the Learjet 35. Although the aircraft is over 20 years old (which is quite old for a business jet) there are still well over 500 Learjet 45s in service all around the world. In total, there have been 642 Model 45s sold. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Development Prior to the Learjet 45, Learjet had been in the business jet industry since the beginning, having produced the first business jet (in the form of the Learjet 23, in 1964). All of Learjet's previous aircraft had been derived from the Learjet 23. Usually these aircraft were a lengthened/shortened variant of it w...

Learjet 35: Learjet’s Most Successful Jet Yet

7Oct

By Christopher HarrowNo Comments

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Learjet 35: Learjet’s Most Successful Jet Yet

In the 1970's, Gates Learjet was known for making some of the best aircraft of its time. In 1973, they released their most popular aircraft, the Learjet 35. Even today, no Learjet aircraft has sold as much as the Gates Learjet 35. Despite being almost 50 years old, there are still well over 500 Learjet 35s in service around the world. The vast majority of these are corporate/private jets, however, a few are also in military use too. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Development In 1967, the newly merged Gates Learjet had just released the Learjet 25, itself a lengthened variant of the Learjet 24 (itself a variant of the Learjet 23, the first private jet in history). Up until this point, the Learjet 24 had been the most successful Learjet aircr...

19Sep

By Gareth SeagullNo Comments

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15 Smallest Private Jets in the World!

Since the first business jets, some manufacturers have tried to make the largest private jets, where others tried to make the smallest private jets. This got me thinking, which are the smallest? For the purposes of this article, I am only focusing on production private jets. These private jets are either currently in production, or have recently come out of production, with several on the secondary market. So these are the smallest private jets! (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); 15. Learjet 45 The Learjet 45 is the "largest" small business jet. Despite this, when you compare the Learjet 45 to other business jets, it is still one of the smallest private jets on the market! In the early 1990's, the Learjet division of Bombardier was seeking ...