“You can’t retrofit a plane that is built for another purpose for Air Force One and expect it to be a free plane,” the Connecticut congressman said, adding that the Qatari plane will require ...

Air Force Secretary Troy Meink told lawmakers on Thursday that it will “probably” cost the Air Force less than $400 million to retrofit a luxury Qatari plane that President Donald Trump has ...

“Air Force One costs over $2 billion a piece so there’s almost a factor of 10 difference in the cost of just the airplane and what it takes to make it into an Air Force One,” the person said.

The AGM-183A Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon, or ARRW, is one of two hypersonic concepts the Air Force is developing now, service head Gen. David Allvin told lawmakers Thursday.

Flying the presidents Air Force One has been in the news lately after President Trump accepted a gift of a Boeing 747-8 from Qatar worth an estimated $200 million to $400 million. Air Force One ...

The Qatari 747-8 is more than 18 feet longer than the current Air Force One. “Frankly, it’s much too big,” Trump told reporters during a media session in the Oval Office at the White House ...

The Eisenhower era saw Air Force One brought into the jet age. In August 1959 Eisenhower first flew aboard VC-137A, a Boeing 707 Stratoliner nicknamed “Queenie” that had been part of the ...

Earlier this month, Trump announced that Qatar had gifted him the jet to serve as Air Force One. It's the most expensive gift to a US president in history. "It's a great gesture from Qatar," Trump ...

While the public has associated the name Air Force One with the modified Boeing 707s and 747s and their distinctive colors, any plane with the president aboard will carry that call sign.