Dassault Falcon 20

The Dassault Falcon 20 is a French business jet developed and manufactured by Dassault Aviation. It was the firm's first business jet and the first of the Falcon family, and both the smaller Falcon 10 and the larger trijet Falcon 50 were direct derivatives of it. It began as the Mystère 20, with development approved in December 1961, and is a low-wing monoplane with two rear-mounted General Electric CF700 turbofans. The prototype flew on 4 May 1963 and the first production aircraft was introduced in June 1965. Through a distribution deal with Pan Am, American deliveries were marketed as the Fan Jet Falcon, and by 1968 Pan Am Business Jets had ordered 160. Civil and military operators included the French Navy, the United States Coast Guard and Federal Express, and production did not end until 1988.