Its flying days at an end, the no-longer-grim General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper, serial number 00-003, has been retired to act as a static exhibit for 432nd Wing of the U.S. Air Force at Creech AFB, Nevada – and it is performing that very role this week in the Changi aircraft park, carrying the badges of the 17th, 18th, 20th and 22nd Attack Squadrons.

It was a lackluster 2019 for Dassault Aviation’s civil business, but military orders helped balance the books.

In various ways, circumstances conspire to decimate the Singapore Airshow’s business aircraft presence.