The Minister for Defence, Dr. Edward Omane Boamah has disclosed that the Presidential Jet, the Dassault Falcon 900EX EASY, is currently unserviceable due to significant technical challenges.
According to the Minister, key components of the aircraft have suffered extensive corrosion rendering it unfit for use by the President, Vice President and other top government officials.
He also noted that efforts to repair the jet have been delayed due to challenges in sourcing the required spare parts.
Responding to a parliamentary question on the status of Ghana’s presidential jet, the Minister for Defence, Dr. Edward Omane Boamah, stated: “Ghana’s preseidential jet if i am to summarise, is an aircraft that is 15 years old, almost, that has massive multifocal corrosion including very important parts of the Machine. This is an air asset of the Airforce that carries not just the President, not just the Executive but sometimes, the Legislature, sometimes other arms of government and sometimes other institutions. These defects, we are trying to fix them, but they keep on identifying new defects as they fix them. And one serious aspect of the identification is that, when they realised that the turbofan was heavily corroded and it required replacement, the company did not have readily available spare. This has deeper implication. Normally like all technologies overtime when you do not have many of that in circulation, companies do not produce many of such spares but after a series of negotiations, a spare was received and that has been installed succesfully and no one can perdict going forward, if other spares also get dysfunctional whether we are going to be able to have others for replacement.”
The aircraft has been undergoing a 24-month/1,600 flight hour inspection in Le Bourget, France, since 11th March 2025.
After several postponements of its return to Ghana — due to the discovery of risky, massive multifocal defects currently being addressed — the inspection is now expected to be completed by 31st July.
Source: GBCONLINE
