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Dassault Mercure family

The Mercure story, from first flight to lasting reputation

The French short-haul airliner that solved its design brief cleanly but arrived in a market that wanted more range.

Dassault Mercure family is a retired airliner by Dassault, first flown in 1971 and introduced in 1974. This canonical Airchive page keeps the family history, specs, variants, operators, and related archive discussion at a single permanent URL.

First flight

1971

Service entry

1974

Seating band

150 to 162

Dassault Mercure family is a retired airliner by Dassault, first flown in 1971 and introduced in 1974, with typical seating for 150 to 162 and range up to 930 nautical miles.

The family page acts as the primary unit of record so airline deployment, cabin experience, production history, and representative variants remain legible instead of fragmenting into model-number sprawl.

Range band

930 nm

Notable operators

Air Inter

Source stack

  • Manufacturer heritage material
  • type certificate and planning data
  • museum and preservation references

Variants

Representative variants

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Variant

Mercure 100

Mercure 100 is the representative branch of the Dassault Mercure family, capturing the only production branch and the entire passenger story of the program.

Range 930 nm · Entry 1974

Specifications

Current public facts

Manufacturer
Dassault
Program history
Class
Airliner
Airchive taxonomy
First flight
1971-05-28
Program history
Service entry
1974-06-04
Operator records
Current status
Retired
Fleet reality
Typical seating
150 to 162
Operator and cabin references
Range band
Up to 930 nm
Program literature
Cruise speed
460 kt
Planning data

Archive moments

Human context

Mercure memories are rare enough to feel almost private, which gives the family the exact archival quality Airchive is supposed to preserve.
Passenger memory matters here because airport routine, cabin atmosphere, and route geography are part of the aircraft story rather than side notes.

Timeline

Program milestones

  1. 1971

    First flight

    The Mercure begins flight testing and establishes the public shape of the family.

  2. 1974

    Service entry

    The family enters passenger or executive service and begins building its operating footprint.

  3. Today

    Current role

    The family remains active in service and still shapes fleet, mission, or archive discussions.

Related news

Editorial context

All news
No editorial dispatches are attached to this family yet. The aircraft record is live, and newsroom or archive coverage can be layered onto it later without changing the URL.

Forum threads

Community memory

Family hub