Dassault Falcon Jet recently celebrated the grand opening of the most recent expansion of its Little Rock Completion Center, a project that will add 350,000 sq ft of production space to the Arkansas facility. The centerpiece of the $60 million project is a new 250,000-sq-ft hangar earmarked for Dassault's latest two models—the Falcon 8X ultra-long-range trijet and the Falcon 5X twin. The new completion hangar will bring the total facility footprint to 1.25 million sq ft.

The expansion also includes refurbishment of cabinet, upholstery and headliner shops and an upgrade to older hangars. The most recent project follows a $20 million, 116,000-sq-ft upgrade in 2008 that added four new state-of-the-art paint bays, along with new production, design and warehouse space, to accommodate the Falcon 7X. Today, Dassault Falcon Jet employs 1,850 people at the facility.