State VIPs will fly American Gulfstream G550 aircraft

The Deputy Minister of Defense Bartosz Kownacki revealed that the Gulfstream 550 has been chosen to fly Polish state VIPs. Kownacki’s statement followed an appearance by Minister of Defense Antoni Macierewicz on TVP 1 where he announced that a plane had been chosen. The Ministry of Defense (MON) conducted two tenders for VIP aircraft: small and medium size. Two companies took part in the tender for small aircraft, France’s Dassault Aviation, which proposed its 16-seater Falcon 7X, and America’s Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation (owned by General Dynamics), which also proposed a 16-seater, the G550. “Regarding the small aircraft, the procedure is in the final stage. There were two bidders, one of whom did not fulfill the formal requirements – that was the French bidder. The second one fulfilled all the formal requirements – the Gulfstream G550," Kownacki said during an interview.