By Luke Jones, Arkansas Business, 12/9/13
One of Little Rock’s most important international companies sits directly under the flight paths of travelers departing and returning from overseas.
The Dassault Falcon Jet completion center comprises almost 1 million SF of hangar and office space at the edge of Clinton National Airport, where it has been situated since 1975. The facility employs 1,700 workers.
Dassault Falcon Jet is one of about a half-dozen subsidiaries of Dassault Aviation ...
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Nov. 5, 2013
WASHINGTON - Orders to U.S. factories rose in September on a big jump in commercial aircraft demand. But businesses cut back sharply on machinery and other goods that signal their confidence to expand, a sign of slower economic growth.
The Commerce Department said Monday that factory orders increased 1.7 percent in September from August. That followed a 0.1 percent decline in August and a 2.8 percent plunge in July.
The September ...
By Noel Oman, 11/4/13, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
The state’s largest airport will enlist a commercial broker specializing in aviation properties to market the major complex that once housed the Hawker Beechcraft completion center and related facilities, and to look for a new tenant.
But that likely won’t happen before Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport/ Adams Field takes over the property Dec. 1, airport officials said during a workshop last week.
In the meantime, the property ...
$45 million Falcon 5X to be finished out at expanded LR plant
By Jack Weatherly, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 10/23/13
"Comfort" is the word that Dassault Falcon is using for its latest business jet model, the Falcon 5X. The long-range jet has an expansive cabin and other improvements, the manufacturer said in a news release.
That translates into breathing room for Dassault Falcon's Little Rock facility that had been squeezed by the federal government shutdown that began Oct. 1 and ...
If approved, test site in Oklahoma expected to benefit Arkansas economically
By Emily Walkenhorst, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 9/14/13
Unmanned aerial systems - better known as "drones" - aren't yet legal for commercial use, but the technology could still bring hundreds of jobs and millions of dollars to Arkansas in the next few years, according to officials and drone commercialization supporters who spoke at a forum in Little Rock on Friday.
Stephen McKeever, Oklahoma's secretary ...
