{"id":25345403,"date":"2026-09-28T20:41:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T18:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/?p=25345403"},"modified":"2026-10-01T15:00:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T13:00:34","slug":"falcon-20-afterburner-n200gt-garrett-tfe1042-testbed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/de\/falcon-20-afterburner-n200gt-garrett-tfe1042-testbed\/","title":{"rendered":"The Falcon 20 With an Afterburner: The Only Business Jet That Lit Reheat"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\n<!-- mfsh:top -->\n\n<style>\n.mfsh-trigger{display:inline-flex;align-items:center;gap:10px;height:44px;padding:0 18px;margin:0 0 26px;border:2px solid #0F1720;background:#fff;color:#0F1720;font-family:inherit;font-size:14px;font-weight:700;line-height:1;letter-spacing:0;text-transform:none;cursor:pointer;box-shadow:none;transition:background .15s,color 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So a photograph of a Dassault Falcon 20 with a long cone of flame blasting out of one engine looks like a joke or a Photoshop. It is neither. In the late 1980s one Falcon 20, registered N200GT, flew with an afterburning turbofan fitted in its left engine position, the only business jet known to have flown with an afterburner.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The photograph has been doing the rounds on Instagram, where @theaviationcircle tells the story. Because no freely licensed copy of the image exists, we have embedded the original post below.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:28px 0\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/garrett-falcon-20-n200gt-afterburner-tfe1042.jpg\" alt=\"Garrett Falcon 20 testbed N200GT flying with its afterburning TFE1042 engine lit\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;display:block\" \/><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;font-style:italic;margin-top:8px\">N200GT with the afterburner of its TFE1042 test engine lit. Note the civil registration on the fin and Garrett&rsquo;s white-and-red scheme, which at a glance resembles Coast Guard colours. Photo: Garrett Corporation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f5f5f5;border-left:4px solid #1a1a1a;padding:18px 22px;margin:24px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:600\">Quick Facts<\/p><ul style=\"margin:0;padding-left:20px\"><li><strong>Aircraft:<\/strong> Dassault Falcon 20C N200GT, built 1968, construction number 137<\/li><li><strong>Owner:<\/strong> Garrett Corporation from 1977, later AlliedSignal and Honeywell<\/li><li><strong>Test engine:<\/strong> Garrett TFE1042 afterburning turbofan, in the left engine position only<\/li><li><strong>Modification:<\/strong> A titanium heat shield on the tail against the afterburner exhaust<\/li><li><strong>When:<\/strong> Late 1980s; accounts give 1987 for the first flight and 1988 for the main tests<\/li><li><strong>What the engine became:<\/strong> The F125, powering Taiwan&rsquo;s F-CK-1 Ching-kuo fighter; the dry F124 powers the L-159 and M-346<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:28px 0\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/aidc-f-ck-1-ching-kuo-f125-afterburning.jpg\" alt=\"A Taiwanese AIDC F-CK-1 Ching-kuo fighter on a runway\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;display:block\" \/><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;font-style:italic;margin-top:8px\">Where the engine ended up: an AIDC F-CK-1 Ching-kuo of the Republic of China Air Force, powered by two afterburning F125s developed from the TFE1042. Photo: Office of the President of Taiwan, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">A Flying Engine Testbed<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>N200GT was not a Coast Guard aircraft. According to its registration history, the Falcon 20C left Dassault in 1968, passed through several US owners, and was bought by the Garrett Corporation in May 1977. Garrett, the Phoenix-based engine maker, re-registered it N200GT in January 1983 and used it as a flying testbed. It had already carried a TFE731-5, one of Garrett&rsquo;s business-jet engines, in test.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>A testbed like this lets an engine maker fly a new engine in a real nacelle on a real aircraft while keeping a proven engine on the other side. That is what happened with the TFE1042: only the left engine was replaced, the right one stayed standard, and the tail was given a titanium heat shield to cope with the afterburner plume passing close by.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The TFE1042<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The TFE1042 began in 1978 as joint research between Garrett and Volvo Flygmotor of Sweden, aimed at a small, light afterburning turbofan for a new fighter. It first ran for three hours at a Volvo test facility in 1979. Volvo and a later Italian partner, Piaggio, dropped out, and in 1982 Garrett and Taiwan&rsquo;s Aerospace Industrial Development Corporation (AIDC) set up the International Turbine Engine Corporation, ITEC, to finish the job.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Its customer was Taiwan&rsquo;s Indigenous Defense Fighter, the <strong>F-CK-1 Ching-kuo<\/strong>, which first flew on 28 May 1989 with two of the engines. Thrust figures quoted for the TFE1042 vary with the version: an early standard gave around 4,260 lbf dry and 6,790 lbf with afterburner, while the production F125-GA-100 is rated at 6,100 lbf dry and about 9,500 lbf in reheat. The figures in the Instagram post, about 5,000 and 8,350 lbf, fall between the two and may reflect the development standard flown on the Falcon.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #1565c0;padding:22px 26px;margin:30px 0\"><p style=\"font-size:19px;line-height:1.6;font-style:italic;margin:0 0 12px\">&ldquo;Developed since 1982, mass-produced in 1990.&rdquo;<\/p><p style=\"margin:0;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>AIDC<\/strong>, Taiwan&rsquo;s Aerospace Industrial Development Corporation, on the TFE1042 programme<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>AIDC and ITEC built 325 of the engines by the end of 1998. The non-afterburning version, the F124, went on to power the Czech Aero L-159 ALCA, the Leonardo M-346 trainer and Boeing&rsquo;s X-45A unmanned combat demonstrator.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:28px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zL2nNVbPvWA\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Where the Coast Guard Comes In<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The Instagram post, and several other accounts including Wikipedia, describe the afterburner flights as a US Coast Guard test programme in 1988. We could not find a primary source for that. The aircraft&rsquo;s registration history shows it in Garrett&rsquo;s hands throughout, passing to AlliedSignal after the 1988 merger and later to Honeywell, and the TFE1042 was a fighter engine with no obvious Coast Guard application.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>There is a plausible reason the two became linked. The Coast Guard was a major Falcon 20 operator: between 1982 and 1983 it took delivery of 41 HU-25 Guardians, Falcon 20s modified for search and rescue and maritime surveillance. And those Guardians were powered by Garrett engines, the unusual three-spool ATF3. The service retired its last HU-25 in September 2014 after 32 years, ending its jet operations. The photographs of the jet with its afterburner lit, now shared widely under the Coast Guard caption, add to the confusion. N200GT flew in Garrett&rsquo;s white paint with a red fuselage band and red fin, a scheme that at a glance looks like Coast Guard colours, but its tail carries a civil registration, not Coast Guard markings.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:28px 0\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/uscg-hu-25a-guardian-2126-1985.jpg\" alt=\"A US Coast Guard HU-25A Guardian parked on a ramp\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;display:block\" \/><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;font-style:italic;margin-top:8px\">The Coast Guard&rsquo;s Falcon 20: HU-25A Guardian 2126 at Sacramento in December 1985. Its engines were Garrett ATF3s. Photo: SDASM Archives (public domain)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Why Put an Afterburner on a Business Jet?<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Nobody intended to build an afterburning bizjet. The point was the engine, not the aircraft. A Falcon 20 was a sensible host: a robust twin that could carry test instrumentation and engineers, fly at representative altitudes and speeds, and keep flying safely on its other engine if the prototype had to be shut down. Military engines are often tested on converted airliners and bombers; Garrett used the aircraft it had. Lighting the afterburner simply proved the complete engine, reheat and all, in flight before it went into a fighter.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:28px 0\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/dassault-falcon-20c.jpg\" alt=\"A Dassault Falcon 20C twin-engined business jet on an airfield ramp\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;display:block\" \/><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;font-style:italic;margin-top:8px\">A standard Dassault Falcon 20C, the type used as the TFE1042 testbed. This Royal Norwegian Air Force example was photographed at Bardufoss in 1998. Photo: Jan Harald Olsen, Wikimedia Commons (GFDL 1.2)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>For how an afterburner works, and why its flame can look blue or orange, see our explainers on <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/afterburners-the-controlled-explosion-behind-every-fighter\/\">the controlled explosion behind every fighter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/afterburner-flame-colour-blue-orange-russian-american-myth\/\">afterburner flame colour<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:28px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3T6I5rWrACs\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #1565c0;padding:22px 26px;margin:30px 0\"><p style=\"font-size:19px;line-height:1.6;font-style:italic;margin:0 0 12px\">&ldquo;It remains the only known business jet documented to have flown with an afterburner.&rdquo;<\/p><p style=\"margin:0;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>@theaviationcircle<\/strong>, Instagram, September 2026<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<style>.mfq{margin:34px 0 8px}.mfq h2{font:26px\/1.3 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117;padding-top:22px;margin:0 0 6px}.mfq .qa details{border-top:1px solid #5C91FF;margin:0;padding:0}.mfq .qa details:last-of-type{border-bottom:1px solid #e2e7ee}.mfq .qa summary{cursor:pointer;list-style:none;display:flex;justify-content:space-between;align-items:center;gap:16px;padding:22px 26px;font:18px\/1.7 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117}.mfq .qa summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}.mfq .qa summary::after{content:\"+\";font:24px Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#3568e0;flex:0 0 auto}.mfq .qa details[open] summary::after{content:\"\\2013\"}.mfq .qa details:hover summary{color:#3568e0}.mfq .qa .a{font:16px\/1.7 \"Gilroy regular\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#454e5e;padding:0 26px 24px}.mfq .qa .a a{color:#3568e0}@media(max-width:680px){.mfq .qa summary{padding:18px 14px;font-size:17px}.mfq .qa .a{padding:0 14px 20px}}<\/style>\r\n\r\n\r\n<section class=\"mfq\"><h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2><div class=\"qa\"><details open><summary>Has a business jet ever flown with an afterburner?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Yes. In the late 1980s a Dassault Falcon 20C registered N200GT flew with an afterburning Garrett TFE1042 turbofan in its left engine position while the right engine stayed standard. It is the only business jet known to have flown with an afterburner, and it needed a titanium heat shield on the tail.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Why did a Falcon 20 have an afterburner?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The Falcon 20 N200GT was an engine testbed owned by the Garrett Corporation. It carried the prototype TFE1042 afterburning turbofan, being developed for Taiwan&rsquo;s F-CK-1 Ching-kuo fighter, so the engine could be proven in flight with a standard engine on the other side for safety.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Did the US Coast Guard fly the afterburning Falcon 20?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Several accounts describe a 1988 Coast Guard test, but we found no primary source for it. Registration records show N200GT owned by Garrett, later AlliedSignal and Honeywell, throughout. The Coast Guard did operate 41 HU-25 Guardians, Falcon 20s powered by Garrett ATF3 engines, which may explain the link.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>What was the Garrett TFE1042?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The Garrett TFE1042 was a small afterburning turbofan started in 1978 with Volvo Flygmotor and completed by ITEC, a joint venture of Garrett and Taiwan&rsquo;s AIDC formed in 1982. Designated F125, it powers the F-CK-1 Ching-kuo; the production F125-GA-100 is rated at 6,100 lbf dry and about 9,500 lbf with afterburner.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Which aircraft use the TFE1042 family of engines?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The afterburning F125 powers Taiwan&rsquo;s AIDC F-CK-1 Ching-kuo fighter, which first flew in 1989. The non-afterburning F124 powers the Aero L-159 ALCA, the Leonardo M-346 trainer and flew in Boeing&rsquo;s X-45A unmanned combat demonstrator.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>What happened to Falcon 20 N200GT?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">After its test career with Garrett, AlliedSignal and Honeywell, Falcon 20C N200GT was sold in 2007 and its US registration was cancelled in 2011. Records list it with standard Honeywell TFE731 engines, not the afterburning test engine.<\/div><\/details><\/div><\/section>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"FAQPage\",\"mainEntity\":[{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"Has a business jet ever flown with an afterburner?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"Yes. In the late 1980s a Dassault Falcon 20C registered N200GT flew with an afterburning Garrett TFE1042 turbofan in its left engine position while the right engine stayed standard. 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Records list it with standard Honeywell TFE731 engines, not the afterburning test engine.\"}}]}<\/script><p style=\"font-size:14px;color:#777;font-style:italic;margin-top:28px\">Sources: Aircraft registration history for N200GT (Falcon 20C c\/n 137); AIDC, &ldquo;TFE1042 Turbofan Engine (1982 to 1998)&rdquo;; Wikipedia (Honeywell\/ITEC F124, AIDC F-CK-1 Ching-kuo, Dassault Falcon 20, Garrett ATF3); @theaviationcircle on Instagram; SDASM Archives and Wikimedia Commons.<\/p>\n\n<!-- mfsh:bottom -->\n\n<button type=\"button\" class=\"mfsh-trigger mfsh-bottom\" data-mfsh-placement=\"bottom\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><svg><use href=\"#mfsh-i-share\"\/><\/svg>Share this story<\/button>\n\n<!-- \/mfsh:bottom -->\n\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f0f4ff;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:16px 20px;margin:32px 0 8px\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:600;color:#333\">Related Posts<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/afterburners-the-controlled-explosion-behind-every-fighter\/\">Afterburners: The Controlled Explosion Behind Every Fighter<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/afterburner-flame-colour-blue-orange-russian-american-myth\/\">Afterburner Flame Colour: Why Some Jets Burn Blue and Others Orange<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/fighter-jet-takeoff-landing-distances-speeds-afterburner-drag-chute\/\">Fighter Jet Takeoff and Landing: The Real Numbers, F-104 to F-35<\/a><\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the late 1980s a Garrett-owned Falcon 20, N200GT, flew with an afterburning TFE1042 in its left engine. 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