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AIRCRAFT COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS DASSAULT FALCON 50
CITATION X FALCON 50
Dassault Falcon 50 by Michael Chase n this month’s Aircraft Comparative Analysis, we provide information on a selection of Pre-Owned business jets in the $4.0 million-or-less price range for the purpose of valuing the preowned Dassault Falcon 50. We’ll consider the productivity parameters - payload/range, speed and cabin size, and cover current and future market values. The field in this study includes the Dassault Falcon 50 and the Cessna Citation X. In this comparison we will see how the Falcon 50 fares against the world’s fastest aircraft, the Citation X. Prices are for 1996 models.
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BRIEF HISTORY The Falcon 50 is a French-built super midsize, long-range business aircraft with three jet engines. It was first certified in February 1979 in France and a month later in the United States. Production of the Falcon 50 ended in 1996. Aviation Partners has since developed winglets for the Falcon 50 as a retrofit kit. Following the Falcon 50 came the Falcon 50EX which made its first flight in 1996. The Falcon 50EX offered improved engines over the Falcon 50 among other improvements that enabled this popular business jet more range. There have been 352 Falcon
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50, 50-40 (engine upgrade), and 50EX aircraft delivered since 1979, and rather remarkably there have been only eight Falcon 50s retired from the fleet. Production of the Falcon 50 series ended in 2007.
MARKET SHARE Chart A (overleaf) represents the in-operation aircraft Market Share as of February 2013 for the Dassault Falcon 50, 50-40, and 50EX fleet combined (53%) and the Cessna Citation X (47%). There are currently 653 total aircraft in operation for these models.
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