Dassault Falcon Jet’s new flagship, formerly code-named the “FNX,” has gotten a permanent name, the Falcon 7X. Dassault unveiled the new moniker, a 10-foot-long scale model of the airplane and a program progress report at a press conference at the company’s North American headquarters in Teterboro in late October. The announcements were originally scheduled to have been made at the mid-September National Business Aviation Association Convention in New Orleans, but that meeting was postponed after the attack on America.
The 7X will be powered by three 6,100-pound thrust Pratt & Whitney PW307A engines, which are a derivative of the successful PW300 series already in service on other bizjets and airliners. Initial TBO for the 307A will be 7,200 hours. Honeywell, along with Dassault, is developing the avionics suite for the 7X. Dubbed EASy, the package will feature a quartet of 14.1-inch diagonal displays. EASy will also be standard fare on the under-development Falcon 2000EX, as well as on the 900EX. The 7X will be the first business jet to have fly-by-wire flight controls, a technology that Dassault has used on many of its fighter jets and that Airbus and Boeing use on their latest models.
