Dassault Opening NY Mx Center after Wilmington Closure

Dassault Aviation is opening a company-owned Falcon service center at Long Island MacArthur Airport (KISP) in Islip, New York, the French airframer announced February 23.

The service center will initially operate from a leased hangar at KISP that can house up to six Falcons and will provide scheduled maintenance, AOG support, and pre-purchase evaluations.

Located within an hour's flight time from 20 percent of the U.S. Falcon fleet, the service center is easily accessible to technical staff and parts supply at Dassault Falcon Jet’s Teterboro, New Jersey headquarters.

The new service center is part of what Dassault calls a regional realignment of resources following the company’s recent closure of one of its U.S. locations in Wilmington, Delaware. Dassault said upgrading the Wilmington center to support its new Falcon 6X and 10X business jets “was not deemed feasible.”

In addition to KISP, Dassault has also been adding service capacity to other U.S. sites, including its Little Rock, Arkansas completions center and service centers in St. Louis, Missouri; Stuart, Florida; and Reno, Nevada. In Reno, the company has added another maintenance bay, improved customer amenities, and established more efficient work areas. It has also appointed Heather Mirra as general manager of the Reno service center. She was most recently the company's director of network supply chain, planning, and scheduling.

“Our planning for new aircraft and new service capabilities continues,” said Jean Kayanakis, senior v-p of Dassault's worldwide Falcon customer service and service center network. “Customers can expect to hear about new capacity coming online as the new models such as the Falcon 6X near their service entry dates.” Type certification of the 6X is anticipated by year-end.