Aviation News Item: 00900

28th Oct 2009

Source: fly-corporate.com

The National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) has honoured Serge Dassault with the prestigious Meritorious Service to Aviation Award. The presentation was made at the 2009 NBAA Convention in Orlando, Florida.

The Award for Meritorious Service to Aviation is NBAA's most distinguished honour, and recognises extraordinary lifelong professional contributions to aviation. Serge Dassault joins a small group of award recipients that are credited with building business aviation from the ground up.

"Serge Dassault is without question one of the most innovative leaders in business aviation, and NBAA is honoured to present him with our Association's highest honor," said Ed Bolen, NBAA President and CEO.

Accepting the award on behalf of his father, Olivier Dassault said, "I would like to thank the NBAA Board of Directors for selecting my father to receive this prestigious award. We are deeply honoured and would like to share the credit with Charles Edelstenne, John Rosanvallon and all the members of the Dassault Falcon team that work very hard every day to keep the Falcon fleet flying all over the world."

Serge Dassault, the son of Dassault Aviation founder Marcel Dassault worked his way up through the company and in 1986 became Chairman and CEO of Dassault Aviation. Under his leadership numerous successful programmes, such as the Falcon 2000, and Rafale took shape confirming Dassault as one of the world leaders in both the civilian and the defense aviation industry.

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