Three engines, fighter-derived fly-by-wire, and French cabin craft: the 7X does steep approaches and short fields no other ultra-long-range jet will touch, then crosses an ocean.
The Numbers That Matter
| Spec | Approximate Figure |
|---|---|
| Class | Heavy jet |
| Typical charter seating | 12 to 14 passengers |
| Range | about 5,950 nm |
| Cruise speed | about 480 knots |
| Cabin (length by width by height) | about 39.1 by 7.7 by 6.2 ft |
| Baggage | about 140 cu ft |
| Lavatory | Aft lav plus fwd crew lav |
Figures are approximate manufacturer-class numbers for planning; individual aircraft vary by configuration, and your quote reflects the actual tail assigned.
Cabin, Seating, and the Bathroom Question
French coachbuilding meets fighter engineering: the 7X is flown entirely by wire, and the smoothness passengers comment on is the flight control computers quietly working.
- Three lounge zones across thirty-nine feet of cabin
- Twelve to fourteen seats with berthing for six
- Dassault cabin pressure holds a 3,900-foot altitude at cruise: arrivals feel it
Yes, a full aft lavatory, with a forward crew lavatory on most tails. Some interiors add a shower aft, rare in this class.
A heavy jet cabin stops being seating and becomes rooms: a working zone forward, dining midship, a lounge aft that converts to beds, with a galley that produces actual dinner and a lav situation measured in doors rather than compromises. Cabin crews are standard, service is plated, and eight hours aboard leaves people reluctant to deplane. It is the class where the flight itself becomes part of the trip you paid for.
Baggage and What Fits
About 140 cubic feet plus deep in-cabin storage. Ski loads for the full cabin are routine; this is the heavy jet that actually goes to the ski towns.
Models and Variants
Charter listings rarely say which generation you are getting unless you ask. The family tree, so the name on your quote means something:
| Variant | What changed |
|---|---|
| Falcon 7X | 2007 onward: the trijet that reinvented Dassault |
| Falcon 8X | 2016: stretched cabin and 6,450-nm legs |
The Trips It Was Built For
Match the airframe to the mission and the quote gets better. This one earns its keep on: Ski & Mountain Trips Business & Executive Entertainment & Touring
Flying It Out of Denver
The 7X party trick matters here: London City-style steep approaches and mountain-town fields plus intercontinental range in one airframe. Aspen to Europe with one airplane is its sentence.
Three engines and a slow, steep approach speed certify the 7X into airports other heavies avoid: Aspen sits on its approved list, which makes Aspen-to-Europe a one-airplane trip.
From Centennial, published range comfortably covers Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Miami, and intercontinental legs beyond.
Heavy iron out of KAPA flies the group missions and the long ones: twelve to the coast for the closing, London one-stop or nonstop by type, the multi-family spring break lift. The 10,001-foot main runway matters here; full-fuel, full-cabin departures on hot afternoons are exactly the case it was built for, and it is why heavy departures that would sweat elsewhere leave Centennial on schedule.
How Chartering One Works
Chartering this type through FlyCentennial works the same as every aircraft on the site: you send the trip through the Get Best Rate form below, we shop it quietly to operators flying this class out of the Front Range, empty legs get checked first, and one itemized number comes back with the tail, the year, and the interior spelled out. No membership, no deposit program, no phone tag with five sales desks. You compare, you ask questions, you book or you walk, and the quote costs nothing either way.
The Operator Behind the Tail
Every aircraft quoted here flies on a Part 135 air carrier certificate, which is the regulatory difference between commercial charter and a friend with an airplane: recurrent crew training, drug and alcohol programs, maintenance tracking, and FAA oversight on all of it. We match the trip to operators whose certificate, crews, and insurance fit the mission, and we will tell you plainly why a given tail earned the quote.
When to Book
On timing: a week ahead is comfortable for this class on domestic lanes, and two or three days is usually workable outside holiday crushes. The calendar spikes that actually bite are ski-season Fridays, major game weekends, and the days around Thanksgiving and Christmas, when the whole fleet is spoken for by noon. Book those the moment dates firm; everything else can breathe. Empty-leg matches, by nature, reward the flexible over the early.
What It Costs to Charter
Heavy jets carry the premium rates the cabins imply; on transcontinental and international legs the per-seat math with a full cabin gets surprisingly rational. Rates move with dates, positioning, and the specific aircraft, which is why we quote trips rather than publish a rate card that would be wrong by Friday. The form below returns a real number, free.