Sat, Sep 18, 2004
Directly Across From Headquarters
Dassault Falcon Friday opened a new
Flight Operations Center at Teterboro Airport. The facility will be
home to the company's 23 person Flight Operations department and
the Falcon demonstration fleet. It will also house three local
Field Service Representatives. The new facility is directly across
from the Dassault Falcon Jet's Headquarters.
"Having the Flight Operations Center so close means that we can
more easily show our customers and operators our products; meet
with customer flight crews; and enhance the spec and design process
in one visit," said Matt Boyle, Senior Vice President and General
Counsel at Dassault Falcon. "Internally this will make it more
efficient to carry out our corporate mission and ease the lines of
communications between so many vital departments." Boyle also
oversees Flight Operations.
The new, 32,200 square foot building complex provides
much-needed space for the Flight Operations department and the
demonstration fleet. The hangar itself can hold up to six Falcons
including the new Falcon 7X. There is 9,700 square feet dedicated
to office space. Almost 130 parking spaces have been created. In
total, 2.9 acres of land has been developed.
Dassault Falcon Flight Ops hasn't always had such ample work
space. Although Falcon Jet operated an FBO for nearly 20 years
starting in 1972, the original home to the department was Hangar
119 at Teterboro which consisted of a half of a lean-two with 1,600
square feet of work space. When Falcon Jet relocated from the south
side of Teterboro to Hasbrouck Heights (NJ) in the early 1980s,
half the Flight Operations department followed. The other half
relocated to a small office space above Hangar 113 that consisted
of two desks. One desk was for longtime Flight Ops employee Tom
Major who is currently Director of Maintenance Operations for
Dassault Falcon. The other desk was shared by the many pilots that
would circulate through the cramped office.
Flight Ops quickly outgrew Hangar 113 and returned to the
familiar surroundings of Hangar 119 to the same lean-two that they
occupied earlier. For ten years, until 1997, that hangar space was
shared with a Falcon operator. The operator moved to new space that
year and the whole 3,600 square foot hangar was then taken over by
Dassault. During that time period, Jet Aviation assumed
responsibility of hangar operations at the South end of the airport
from the Port Authority. Dassault Falcon Jet remained as a tenant
in Hangar 119 until moving into the new home.
This is the third new hangar facility opening in as many months
at Dassault Falcon. The Little Rock Completion Center and Dassault
Falcon Jet/Wilmington each opened a new paint facility in June and
July respectively. In total, 118,200 of new space have been opened
at the three Dassault Falcon facilities since June 2004.
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