Speculations about the purchase of the new Falcon 6X aircraft first revolved around X. Whose plane is worth around 50 million euros that landed at the Belgrade airport a week ago. Why doesn't the Government make a statement about it?
A week ago, a plane landed at "Nikola Tesla" airport Falcon 6X. That plane is the 13th in a row ever produced and most likely a new plane bought by the Aviation Service of the Government of Serbia, writes the Tango six portal.
The first leader of the Party of Freedom and Justice, Dragan Đilas, speculated about the purchase of this plane. He wrote on his X account: "It seems to us with Rafale from France Falcon is also arriving for the needs of state officials - read Vučić. The price is a real trifle - fifty or so million euros".
It seems that together with the Rafale from France, the Falcon is also arriving for the needs of state officials - read Vučić. The price of a real trifle - fifty or so million euros.
The salaries of educators are being cut, there is nothing for the treatment of children, there is nothing for hospitals, schools, but for the purchase of an airplane for the president and... pic.twitter.com/vz5ur9XzOn- Dragan Djilas (@DraganDjilas) March 23, 2025
Petar Vojinović, editor-in-chief of the Tango six portal, told "Vreme" that this type of business jet, according to publicly available data, costs around 50 million euros.
However: "These publicly available data represent commercial public prices that serve exclusively for commercial sales purposes and it cannot always be assumed that these are precise prices, especially when it is not known which equipment options are included in the purchase, and kpoies determine the final price".
Vojinović states that the second aspect of this story is Đilas's speculation that the plane was purchased as part of the contract for the purchase of Rafal multipurpose fighter planes, which we cannot possibly know without looking at both contracts.
"However, by the standards of the industry, both military and civilian, it would be extremely unusual for this to have happened, even though it is a company that has both a military and a civilian program and produces both Rafales and Falcons," explains the "Vremena" interlocutor.
Why is this plane needed?
The air service of the Government of Serbia does not transport only the President, the Prime Minister and the President of the Assembly. "They currently have three aircraft in their possession, two of which are operational, and only one is usable, and that is the Embraer Legacy 600, which was the last one purchased," Vojinović says.
According to the Tango six portal, the Embraer Legacy 600 aircraft was introduced into the fleet as a used aircraft in September 2018.
"The third aircraft that was grounded is also a Falcon, but a Falcon 50 that was purchased more than 40 years ago," our interlocutor points out.
When asked if there is a need to acquire such an aircraft, Vojinović answers that the current Embraer Legacy 600 has a certain range that is sufficient to cover the European continent from Belgrade, while the Falcon 6x is a completely different story.
"It enables a continuous flight from Belgrade to Tokyo, Johannesburg, New York. That is the most useful aspect of this purchase," explains our interlocutor.
When asked if it is a luxury plane, Vojinović concludes that: "The characterization of luxury is a subjective perception and factually does not correspond to the analysis since every business plane is 'luxurious', that is, every non-passenger plane is 'luxurious'".
There is no denial from the top of the government.
The President of the Assembly, Ana Brnabić, also responded to Dragan Đilas's announcement, who did not deny the purchase of the planes, but referred to the statement that they were purchased together with 12 Rafales.
"An astonishingly limited machine brain claims that we bought 12 Rafales for 2,7 billion euros to 'hide' the purchase of one Falcon for 40 million euros," she wrote on the X social network.
Last year, Serbia signed an agreement on the purchase of 12 new fighter planes from France, the value of that purchase was 2,7 billion euros.
An astonishingly limited machine brain claims that we bought 12 Rafales for 2,7 billion euros to "hide" the purchase of one Falcon for 40 million euros?!? What foolishness! It is no wonder that he made his first money when he started to engage in politics. If he had worked honestly, he would have gone hungry. This… https://t.co/tIy0lMrQcF
- Ana Brnabic (@anabrnabic) March 23, 2025
The information about the purchase of Falcon has not yet been published. When asked whether a public procurement had to be announced before the purchase of the Falcon, Nemanja Nenadić from Transparency Serbia (TS) explained to "Danas" that the Aviation Service of the Government of Serbia can procure new aircraft, but that, like any other customer, it is obliged to plan such a procurement first, and then to implement one of the procedures provided for in the Law on Public Procurement.
"However, nothing similar to this procurement can be found in their procurement plans for 2024 or 2025, which means that it is not planned," he pointed out.
Nenadić stated that the first dilemma is whether the Aviation Service, as the most logical customer, carried out this procurement or whether it was done by some other state body.
"Secondly, there is a question for which there is no clear answer so far - whether any of the public procurement procedures were applied or they were excluded for some reason."
Nenadić also said that there is a small possibility that some of the public procurement procedures were applied.
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