Here’s Why Dassault Scrapped The Falcon 5X Before It Ever Entered Service
A near-ready flagship cabin, with fighter-derived fly-by-wire controls, sat grounded due to a shortfall in French turbofans.
By Ethan QualleZimbabwe

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The Boeing 787-3 was a planned program for Boeing's lineup of commercial aircraft. However, the program was canceled before the first example took flight. As with most product lines that never take flight, firms typically cancel them well before the first flight, or even before the first manufactured example takes shape. Dassault Falcon Jet Corporation developed a platform that made it through most of the planning stages and even flew a series of test flights.
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- 75 words · 1 min read
- Published
- October 31, 2026
- Byline
- Ethan Qualle
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- Simple Flying