

Dassault Aviation Falcon 2000
The original Falcon 2000 entered service in 1995 as a twin-engine derivative of the Falcon 900, sharing its fuselage cross-section and wing design with a fuselage about 7 ft shorter. Powered by CFE738 turbofans and fitted with Collins Pro Line 4 avionics, it flew eight passengers 3,000 nm. About 230 were built before the PW308C-powered 2000EX took over.
In short: The Dassault Aviation Falcon 2000 is a Large Jet with a range of 3,000 nm, a cruise speed of 488 knots and room for 8 passengers. It lists at about $18.1M new and costs roughly $3,000 an hour to operate (estimate).
Highlights
- Wide 7 ft 8 in Falcon cabin cross-section
- 3,000 nm range with eight passengers
- Collins Pro Line 4 four-tube EFIS
Performance
- Range
- 3,000 nm
- Max cruise
- 488 kts
- Max Mach
- 0.87
- Max altitude
- 47,000 ft
- Takeoff distance
- 5,440 ft
- Landing distance
- 2,650 ft
- MTOW
- 35,800 lb
- Engines
- 2 × CFE738-1-1B
- Thrust per engine
- 5,918 lbf
- Fuel burn
- 197 gal/hr
- Avionics
- Collins Pro Line 4
Cabin
- Passengers
- 8 / 10
- Cabin length
- 26.2 ft
- Cabin width
- 7.7 ft
- Cabin height
- 6.2 ft
- Cabin volume
- 1,024 cu ft
- Baggage
- 134 cu ft
- Min. crew
- 2
Economics
- New price
- $18.1M
- Variable cost / hr
- $3,000
- Fixed cost / yr
- $850,000
- First delivery
- 1995
- Out of production
- 2006
- Units built
- 230
- Pre-owned range
- $2.7M – $7.5M
Estimates. Operating costs and pre-owned prices are modelled from industry benchmarks and updated quarterly. Data reviewed 2026-09-13. Sources & methodology.
Dimensions & weights
- Length
- 66.4 ft
- Wingspan
- 63.4 ft
- Height
- 23.2 ft
- Max fuel
- 12,155 lb
Programme milestones
- 1993-03-04First flight en.wikipedia.org
- 1994Certification · Certified en.wikipedia.org
- 1995First delivery · Introduced into service en.wikipedia.org
Sources (13)
Pre-owned range & Residual value curve
Pre-owned range
$2.7M – $7.5M
Estimates. Operating costs and pre-owned prices are modelled from industry benchmarks and updated quarterly.
Residual value curve
Estimated value retention over 10 years from new, by category depreciation model.
Year 10: 50% ≈ $9.1M
Compare with similar private jets
Compare: Falcon 2000 vs Challenger 850 vs Legacy 600 vs Challenger 601-3A/3R →
Sources and credits
- Dassault Aviation Falcon 2000 · Raimond Spekking · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

