The Falcon 900 was Dassault’s first entry in the heavy-iron private jet market. Dassault is a well experienced company whose jets are known for high standards of engineering, structural quality, and technological advancement – and the Falcon 900 was a step-up even from those.

The cabin of the Falcon 900 is huge, with a height of 6.1 feet, width of 7.7 feet, length of 39 feet (not including the cockpit), with a total volume of 1,265 cubic feet. Usual seating configurations are from 8 to 12 passengers in a double-club configuration with a 3-person divan. Two seats can be reclined to combine into a full-length bed. All seats are fully adjustable, move along a track, swivel, recline, and everything else a seat could feasibly do. Console tables come standard, and there is room for most office or entertainment equipment – computer, copier, scanner, TV, desk, and so on. Even with the tables and seats, there is plenty of room to walk around the cabin.

The full-sized galley can be configured with equipment for hot meal preparation, including a high temperature oven, microwave and the ubiquitous coffee maker. There are many interior configuration options, from wheelchair access to partitioned rooms. Separate rooms have been used to create a private office (with a full-sized desk) or a bedroom (with a queen-sized bed). The aft baggage compartment holding 127 cubic feet of baggage, is pressurized and air conditioned, with in-flight access. Temperature distribution is even throughout the entire cabin with very low sound levels.

It can take off in 5,300 feet at sea level (or at 8,095 feet at an altitude of 5,000 feet and a temperature of 77 ˚ F) due in part to its three (not two) Honeywell TFE731-5AR-1C engines. They are flat-rated to 4,500 pounds of thrust apiece. The Falcon 900’s short runway performance is also due to its very light, tough frame, made of titanium, Kevlar, and carbon fiber composites, all very lightweight but sturdy materials allowing the Falcon to do what much heavier private jets needing more powerful engines are able to do.

The Falcon 900 can fly a long-range mission of 4,940 miles (4,300 nautical miles) at .75 Mach, or a 4,480 mile (3,900 nautical mile) high-speed trip at .85 Mach. Its maximum range is 5,180 miles (4,500 nautical miles). It can fly at altitudes as high as 51,000 feet and is rated to 9.3 psi, maintaining a sea level cabin at 25,300 feet.

Dassault chose the Rockwell/Collins avionics system including dual Honeywell/Sperry WR-800 Flight Management System (FMS), Inertial Reference System, and Air-Data systems. A Smiths standard magnetic compass, emergency attitude gyro and dual Baker M-1045 audio systems also come standard.

The Dassault Falcon 900 is an impressive private jet providing a range of over 5,000 miles, an incredibly comfortable cabin, and an innovate three-engine configuration making it an enviable private jet, ideal for transoceanic and transcontinental trips with lots of versatility for in-flight planning.