Dessault Mercure 100

heathrow · Post by **heathrow** » 16 Apr 2005, 09:17

I was searching Airliners.net recently, and stumbled upon this aircraft!

I thought it was a lovely little French mock-up of the B737. Does anyone have any information about this aircraft?

sab319 · Post by **sab319** » 16 Apr 2005, 11:26

I believe it was the french counter move for the B737 but it had unfortunatly insufficient range to compete ( I believe +- 400km vs +- 3000km). On a technological level it was more advanced than the B732 and pilots prefered the Mercure over the B732. They both had the same engines but unfortunatly only 11 Mercures actually flew for an airline and the only operating carrier was French Air Inter. even flag carrier air France and Belgian Sabena selected the B732 in favour of the Mercure.

Post by **sn26567** » 16 Apr 2005, 17:27

See https://www.aviation24.be/posts8009-highlightmercure.html

Togalock · Post by **Togalock** » 17 Apr 2005, 15:00

There is one Mercure standing in Montpellier in the Air Littoral colors.

heathrow · Post by **heathrow** » 04 May 2005, 05:03

I liked the look of this aircraft. It's too bad it was a dud!

HorsePower · Post by **HorsePower** » 05 May 2005, 00:45

Perhaps we will see in the future, a come back from Dassault into the regional jet market based on a streched bi-engined Falcon 7X.

Just a crazy idea...

Seb.

heathrow · Post by **heathrow** » 05 May 2005, 02:03

hopefully!