Fan Jet Falcon, December 1970

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DECEMBER 1970
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PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS
Business Jets Moves to Teterboro
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The headquarters’ staff of the Business Jets Division has moved from the Pan Am Building in New York to Teterboro Airport in New Jersey, where falcon Spares Support and the flight department had already been located.
The airport is operated for the Port of New York Authority by Pan Am’s Metropolitan Air Facilities Division, which has also moved from New York to Teterboro.
The moves had been planned for some time, but awaited the completion of new headquarters facilities. More than 100 employees of the two divisions now share large remodeled office-warehouse build-g at the south end of the airport.
The Business Jets area includes offices, conference rooms, and a sales display room large enough to house a full size mockup of the falcon 10, the smaller version of the fan jet falcon. There is also a warehouse for the $5 million inventory of falcon spare parts, including a fenced off customs bonded storage section.
Soon to be completed are a catered cafeteria, a visitors’ dining room, and a large communications room that will house the telephone equipment for the entire Teterboro complex.
falcon Spares Support had been located in another building at the airport for about two years.
Other Pan Am personnel at Teterboro include an airport operations group of 30 men headed by Richard G. Smith, airport manager.
Pan Am plans to make Teterboro a model airport for general and business aviation. Plans call for an ultramodern complex at the south end of the airfield. It will include a terminal building design-
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FALCON 10 MAKES TEST FLIGHT
The FAN JET FALCON 10 prototype No. 01 successfully completed its first flight Tuesday, December 1. The airplane took off from the Avions Marcel Dassault airfield in Merignac, France at 9:50 a.m. and landed 54 minutes later.
Tests pilots Herve LePrince Rinquet and Jean Marie Coureau reported all systems functioned normally. One observer, however, gave a more poetic description of the flight. He reported: “It took off like a bird and landed like a flower.”
The airplane was rolled out of the Dassault hangar in Merignac at the beginning of September. The first engine tests were performed September 24, on schedule. Taxi tests were performed later the same day (see photo above).
The FALCON 10 was painted with Pan Am's colors and preflight tests were completed last month (see photo below).
Flight tests will now proceed at an accelerated pace using the General 610 engines until the Garrett TFE 731-2 engines are delivered.