Presidential travel is a far cry from a typical commercial flight. No ordinary aircraft could serve as Air Force One. When the Air Force selected a pair of Boeing 747-200Bs (one as a spare) as Air ...

"This looks like one of the bigger wastes of money inside your budget," Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., said of plans to turn a ...

The callsign "Air Force One" was first used for this aircraft because of a near accident in 1953, when Air Force flight 8610 — the plane carrying President Eisenhower — and Eastern Airlines ...

Today's Air Force One Presidential Plane. By 1986, plans to replace the VC-137 were made, and two manufacturers — Boeing and ...

New presidential plane, Air Force One, won't be red, white and blue as Trump asked. John Bisognano, Palm Beach Post. Sun, March 12, 2023 at 7:43 PM UTC. 3 min read.

President Trump wants to accept a Boeing 747 gifted by Qatar and use it as Air Force One. The president wants to use the jet amid delays with the new replacement fleet of AF1 aircraft.

Technically the program is known as the VC-25B, since the famous “Air Force One” designation is reserved for when the president is actually on any US Air Force-operated plane, not when it is ...

Frustrated by massive delays on Boeing’s work to deliver a new Air Force One, the president has commissioned a smaller defense contractor to ready an interim presidential plane by year’s end.

Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon used an Air Force One plane known as SAM 970. The first jet-powered presidential aircraft featured an office and a safe for the nuclear codes.

Snopes readers asked if someone generated the clip, showing the president nearly falling on his way up the steps, with artificial intelligence.

Technically, "Air Force One" is a radio call sign, the designation for any Air Force aircraft with the US president aboard. The small prop plane Lyndon Baines Johnson took from Austin to his Texas ...

Among the ways being discussed to force faster delivery of two presidential planes are relaxing security clearances for Boeing workers and even purchasing a temporary luxury plane and retrofitting it.