Falcon 10X test fleet grows to two aircraft
Dassault now has two Falcon 10X prototypes flying, with aircraft serial number two making its first flight from Mérignac on September 24.
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The Dispatch
A short briefing every morning: what’s new in the world of private jets, plus an aircraft, a priced route, a fact and a story from the archive.
2026-10-10
September bizav flying beat forecasts as fractional jets led
North American business aviation activity rose 0.9% year over year in September, while large-cabin fractional flying jumped 13.9%, according to Argus TraqPak data.
Read the brief →Ocean Aviation starts $67 million Miami private-jet campus
Ocean Aviation broke ground at Miami Executive Airport on a $67 million FBO campus with up to 400,000 square feet of hangar space on 40 acres.
Read the brief →Embraer delivers 41 business jets in record Q3
Embraer delivered 41 executive jets in the third quarter of 2026, bringing business jet deliveries to 115 for the year and keeping its 160-to-170 target in reach.
Read the brief →Jet of the day: Gulfstream Aerospace G280
The G280 is Gulfstream's super-midsize entry, built in partnership with Israel Aerospace Industries and delivered since 2012. It pairs a transcontinental 3,600 nm range with the PlaneView280 flight deck and one of the largest cabins in its class, making it a favorite of fractional operators and corporate flight departments alike. Range 3,600 nm, 8 seats, about $25,500,000 new and roughly $3,300 an hour in fuel and maintenance.
Full profile →Fact of the day
Top business jets are certified to 51,000 feet, roughly 10,000 to 16,000 feet above the airliners cruising below them, which lets them fly above most weather and traffic. (Manufacturer specifications (G650ER, Global 7500, Falcon 7X, Citation X))
More numbers →Route of the day: San Francisco Bay Area → Johannesburg
9,138 nautical miles, about 21h 15m in a large jet, roughly $275,317–$430,241 one-way for four — about $88,195 a seat.
Price this route →From the archive, 2022: The jet-tracking wars: ElonJet, Twitter and LVMH
Student Jack Sweeney's automated accounts tracking the jets of Elon Musk, Taylor Swift and others became a global story in 2022. After buying Twitter, Musk suspended @ElonJet in December and changed the platform's rules to ban real-time location sharing. In France, tracking accounts prompted LVMH to sell its Global 7500 and politicians to propose private-jet taxes. The debate also drove some owners to enrol in the FAA's privacy programmes that mask registrations from public feeds, without stopping tracking by dedicated hobbyists.
The full timeline →Spotlight: Mark Zuckerberg’s Gulfstream G650ER
Meta's proxy filings show the company covers Zuckerberg's private flights on security grounds, with more than $2.3 million in 2022 alone. He is reported to have added a Gulfstream G700 in 2024, and both jets wear a Meta-inspired blue-and-white scheme.
The story →Hangar talk: “Fractional owners share one specific jet with a few other people.”
MISLEADING — On paper, yes: you buy a 1/16th or 1/8th share of a specific aircraft with a tail number, and that's what you own for tax and legal purposes. In practice, you almost never fly on it. NetJets, Flexjet and their peers operate a pooled fleet and send whichever aircraft of your category is nearest — that's the entire point. The 'one specific aircraft' is a legal fiction with a registration certificate.
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