(Saint-Cloud, France, September 23, 2025) – Dassault Aviation today inaugurated a new
facility, in Cergy, northwest of Paris. The opening ceremony, presided over by Chairman and
CEO Eric Trappier, alongside the plant’s employees, was attended by Philippe Court, the
Prefect of Val d’Oise, and numerous elected officials, including Valérie Pécresse, President of
Paris Regional Council, Marie Christine Cavecchi, President of Val d’Oise Departmental
Council, and Jean-Paul Jardon, Mayor of Cergy and President of the Urban Community.
Military authorities and representatives of the regional industrial ecosystem were also present.

Eric Trappier stated: “This is Dassault Aviation’s first new production facility since the 1970s.
It sends a positive signal to the aerospace sector and to industry as a whole. France possesses
unique expertise that we must preserve and develop within our national territory. This is a
question of sovereignty, which is particularly vital in the current context. It is also an economic
and social imperative, to meet the challenge of reindustrializing our country and creating jobs.”

Operational since summer 2024, the state-of-the-art Cergy facility has taken over operations
previously carried out at the now-outdated plant in Argenteuil: assembly of Falcon and Rafale
skin panels and small parts; forward fuselages assembly; Rafale fuselage outfitting; and metal
hose production.

The new facility hosts more than 600 engineers, technicians, foremen and skilled workers,
mostly transferred from the company’s former plant in Argenteuil.

Source: Dassault Aviation