Jet Aviation Basel will perform the world’s first C-check on a customer-owned Dassault Falcon 7X. This follows the company’s completion of a demonstration C-check performed on a Dassault Falcon Service-operated Falcon 7X last year.
The most comprehensive maintenance event on the aircraft, the C-check comes due on the 7X every eight years or 4,000 cycles, whichever occurs first. Inspectors found no corrosion issues during the demo C-check, and if subsequent checks have similar results, some inspection intervals may be lengthened. For now the C-check requires 8,500 man-hours of labor, and Fabien Fuster, director of Dassault Falcon maintenance at Jet Aviation Basel, said he has assigned “more than 40” technicians to the task.
The customer’s 7X has been inducted for its inspection and is scheduled for redelivery in February.