Project Review
Dassault Falcon 7X
Partial Refurbishment with a Clear Focus
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Luminair’s cabins share a signature: one dark wood grain in Decor Film Application, a design line the Hamburg operator developed with AeroVisto some two years ago and has since taken through three projects. The fourth is a Dassault Falcon 7X. This time Luminair kept the scope deliberately partial, with a clear focus on the wood, rounded out by the two divans and the galley floor. The aircraft was in a heavy maintenance check at Dassault in Bordeaux, and the interior work was set inside that check.
Decor film was the method of choice, and the modifications show why. On this 7X the wood carries the design, from the sideboards to the bulkheads aft — and several elements were modified during the project, cutouts included. A veneered panel cannot absorb that: change one cutout, and the whole part has to be re-veneered. Decor film follows the new geometry and restores the design where the modification ends. That is its strength.
The work itself happened in Staad. Every wooden element went through AeroVisto’s standard sequence for decor film: the substrate prepared, the film worked like a veneer with grain direction and pattern matched across doors and drawers, a protective coating on top. Both triple divans aft received new upholstery in soft sand and gray, and the galley got new non-textile flooring.
The aircraft never left Bordeaux; the interior did. Refurbishing a cabin while the aircraft sits in a manufacturer’s check is as much a logistics project as a craft project, and AeroVisto ran it as one. A kickoff with Dassault set the roles; a weekly report kept both sides current. AeroVisto brought its own transport boxes and project manager to Bordeaux for the packing and moved the elements to Staad and back. Good project management shows in the unexpected: when wildfires closed the Dassault facility just as the finished interior was due for delivery, both sides rescheduled within the week, and AeroVisto’s team was on site as Dassault completed the installation.
Inside, the Falcon 7X is unmistakably a Luminair aircraft now: the fleet’s wood grain on every wooden surface, the divans and the galley floor renewed. What pleases the AeroVisto team most, every time, is a satisfied customer — like Daniel Hohlfeld of AVITECH, the aircraft’s technical management, who wrote after delivery: “First of all, thank you for the successful project. It was fun, and inside, the aircraft looks great.”
AeroVisto Interior Services AG is a certified Part 145 EASA Maintenance Organization and a Part 21G EASA Production Organization and delivers the needed documentation with every service. This includes the Engineering Order, STC, Major Change, Minor Change Certification, and EASA Form 1. We take care of the complete coordination of the certification, including flammability sampling and testing and interaction between our production engineering and the corresponding team of the approved EASA 21J Design Organization.
