Prince Albert II's Dassault Falcon 8X lands in Lahr the week of a royal waterbike arrival in Monaco

Prince Albert II's Dassault Falcon 8X (tail 3A-MGA) was tracked flying from Nice-Côte d'Azur Airport to Lahr Airport in southwestern Germany on June 28, a journey of one hour. The aircraft reached 32,025 feet and a top ground speed of 514.8 knots before touching down at 16:40 UTC.

If Prince Albert II was aboard, the timing would be curious: just days earlier, on June 20, the prince and Princess Charlene greeted Team Lionheart on Larvotto beach after the third edition of Together Crossing for the Pelagos, a 225-kilometer waterbike relay from Viareggio to Monaco, per News.MC and Monaco Life. The Lahr landing — a destination not listed among his frequent stops — would position him inland as the Pelagos event’s fundraising continued.

The flight follows a pattern of short European movements: Paris on June 15, Budapest on June 11, and a trip to Austria and western France earlier in June. The prince’s Falcon 8X, registered to the Grimaldi coat of arms, typically conducts roughly a dozen official flights annually, with greenhouse gas emissions offset through carbon credits, per [celebplanes.com](https://www.celebplanes.com/celebrity/prince-albert-ii).