Lt. Col. Brian Seymour was removed from command of the 71st Student Squadron on Thursday, June 12, the Air Force said, less than a month after he took over the unit. “Lt. Col. Brian Seymour was ...

But Courtney, pointing to the expenses to build out two Air Force One aircraft as part of a $3.9 billion contract in 2018, contended that “it’s clear that this new third plane is going to cost ...

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.

A Whiteman Inn accounting technician takes a phone call from a customer calling about lodging at the Whiteman Inn, on Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo., June 1, 2023.

The Air Force Academy’s new superintendent, Lt. Gen. Tony D. Bauernfeind, arrived in August of 2024 and immediately embarked on his own personal shock and awe campaign.

On Monday night, Sen. Mike Rounds, R-SD, hinted that the Air Force is already devising plans to convert the Qatari jet, saying the service “actually does have a plan to be able to work through ...

The Air Force will “look over all of those issues,” Meink told Duckworth, and the service is “postured” to make the necessary modifications, said Air Force Chief Gen. David Allvin.

Trump has complained that Boeing has been too slow to complete a new Air Force One after his first administration in 2018 awarded the company a $3.9 billion contract to build two new Air Force One ...

The Air Force expects to have an F-47 operational capability between 2025 and 2029. As far as fighter jet procurement programs go, this is an extremely fast pace, and it could very well mean an ...

Air Force One is a Boeing 747-200B, which has increased fuel capacity and more powerful engines than the standard 747-200. Boeing first started serving the model in 1972.

"When I first came in, I signed an order to get (the new Air Force One fleet) built," he continued. "I took it over from the Obama administration, they had originally agreed.