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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

(Though “Air Force One” designates the aircraft on which the President flies, it’s not actually one single plane.) The new planes will be replacing a set that, according to the Department of ...

Although finalized plans for a new Air Force One do not yet exist, the history of these planes suggests some ground rules for their future. Here are some of the features that experts say we can exp ...

President-elect Donald Trump wants to clip the wings of a new Air Force One, saying the customized 747 is too expensive. "The plane is totally out of control," Trump told reporters Tuesday morning ...

Air Force One has the ability to fly at a speed of over 600 miles per hour (or 92 percent of the speed of sound) -- so fast that F-16 fighter planes escorting the president’s plane while in ...

The Air Force, which has been looking for ways to lower the cost of new Air Force One planes, has agreed to buy two jumbo jets from Boeing that were ordered but never delivered to a now-defunct ...

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.