Dassault Aviation Opens New Facility

DASSAULT Aviation inaugurated a new facility, in Cergy, northwest of Paris in a ceremony presided over by Chairman and CEO Eric Trappier. Eric Trappier said, “This is Dassault Aviation’s first new production facility since the 1970s. It sends a positive signal to the aerospace sector and to industry as a whole. France possesses unique expertise that we must preserve and develop within our national territory. This is a question of sovereignty, which is particularly vital in the current context. It is also an economic and social imperative, to meet the challenge of reindustrialising our country and creating jobs.”

Operational since summer 2024, the state-of-the-art 110,760 m² Cergy facility with 39,700 m² of production space has taken over operations previously carried out at the now-outdated plant in Argenteuil which assembles the Falcon and Rafale skin panels and small parts, forward fuselages assembly, Rafale fuselage outfitting which includes installation of circuits (electric, fuel, hydraulic, air) and certain equipment (computers, actuators, landing gear, etc. and metal hose production.The new facility hosts more than 600 engineers, technicians, foremen and skilled workers, mostly transferred from the former plant in Argenteuil. The Cergy plant also features solar panels on the roof.

Trappier was also reported to have stated that Taiwan was interested in procuring Rafales as the potential replacement for its Mirage 2000 fighters–-shp/adj/dl (Pix:DASSAULT)