Dassault Aviation : News

(Saint-Cloud, 17 June 2022) – To celebrate 70 years since the entry into service of the MD 450 Ouragan, the first mass-produced, French-designed jet aircraft, the French Air and Space Force (AAE) and Dassault Aviation will be presenting an example of this aircraft alongside a two-seater Rafale in the North Gardens of the Hôtel national des Invalides, from 20 June to 18 September, for an exhibition entitled “From the Ouragan to the Rafale, 70 years of industrial and operational excellence”.

Dassault Aviation has made progress this year in the survey conducted by Universum, a firm specialized in employer branding. For the past decade, our company has been in the Top 10 of companies favored by students at engineering schools.

Dassault Aviation takes part in the EBACE show at the Palexpo of Geneva (Switzerland) from 23 to 25 May 2022.

(Saint-Cloud, France, April 19th, 2022) – Today, we received the first down payment of the contract for the acquisition of 80 Rafale by the United Arab Emirates.

Dassault Aviation is included in the second edition of the Financial Times‘ “Europe’s Climate Leaders 2021” ranking. The ranking identified the 400 European companies that achieved the greatest reduction in greenhouse gas emissions intensity between 2015 and 2020. Dassault Aviation is among the 44 French companies identified in this ranking which has followed, this year, an even more stringent methodology.

This 2022 edition was once again a success for the Dassault Group team, which came first among the ten participating companies.

Dassault Aviation was a partner in the IT project "Dat'Hack" of the BEST association of the École nationale supérieure des techniques avancées (ENSTA Paris) on March 19 and 20.

Eric Trappier, Chairman and CEO of Dassault Aviation, and Vice-Admiral Aristidis Alexopoulos, Director General of Armaments and Investments of the Greek Ministry of Defence, signed in Athens, in the presence of Mrs. Florence Parly, French Minister of the Armed Forces, and Mr. Nikolaos Panagiotopoulos, Greek Minister of National Defence, a contract for the acquisition of six additional new Rafale aircraft.

From March 23 to 27, 2022, the 35th edition of the Heart Race (Course du cœur) will take place.