Dassault Aviation is expanding its global customer service network to include new and extended spare parts facilities and additional service centres. Work is under way on a new spares facility north of Paris, strategically positioned between Charles de Gaulle and Le Bourget airports, that is intended to improve the speed and efficiency of spare parts shipments to Falcon customers throughout the EMEA region. It will replace an existing facility at Le Bourget and complements a large spares complex in Teterboro, New Jersey.

The $50 million, 18,000 sqm facility will include a spares management system designed to speed up parts dispatch and provide room for future growth. The complex is due to enter service in late 2018. This development follows the installation of a new spares facility at Vnukovo airport in Moscow and the expansion of the existing inventory in Louisville, Kentucky, in the US. Dassault currently maintains more than $870 million in spare parts inventory at 15 locations around the globe.

Dassault's wholly owned Dassault Falcon Service affiliate at Paris Le Bourget is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.