After a series of speculations that the Government of Serbia acquired a new Falcon 6X aircraft, expensive plane which landed a few weeks ago on Nikola Tesla Airport, in the last days of April, the first official flights were made with that aircraft, and on April 30, it flew across the Atlantic for the first time.
"The first official flight of the new Falcon 6X aircraft, reg. YU-RSB, of the aviation service of the Republic of Serbia across the Atlantic", along with a photo from the flight tracking website, was published on the X social network by Aero Telegraf journalist Peđa Vučetić.
The President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, traveled to the United States on April 30 at exactly the same time, and in a post on Instagram, he spoke from the airport in Florida.
A few days earlier, on April 27, the first public video of the new Dassault Falcon 6X (Dassault Falcon 6X), which is at the disposal of the Aviation Service of the Government of the Republic of Serbia, was recorded at the airport in Banja Luka, Telegraf reported.
The flight, as stated, was carried out on the occasion of the arrival of the President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić in Banja Luka, where he attended the commemoration of the Day of Remembrance for the victims of the NDH genocide in the Jasenovac concentration camp and its largest execution site in Donja Gradina.
An airplane worth around 50 million euros
On Thursday, On April 17, he landed at Nikola Tesla Airport is the Falcon 6X aircraft, only the 13th ever produced.
The first leader of the Party of Freedom and Justice, Dragan Đilas, speculated about the purchase of this plane. He wrote on the X social network: "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."
Petar Vojinović, editor-in-chief of the Tango six portal, previously 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 stated 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, according to the standards of the industry, both military and civilian, it would be extremely unusual if this happened, even though it is a company that has both a military and a civilian program and produces both Rafales and Falcons," explained the interlocutor of "Vremena".
Falcon 6X was delivered to Serbia after several flights that illustrate the standard delivery dynamics of a newly produced aircraft, equipping its passenger cabin and soon formal registration in the Serbian national aircraft registry, Tango Six wrote stating that the aircraft will be registered as YU-RSB.
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.
