The largest Airbus in production is the A350-1000, a plane smaller than the 777X and almost identical to the prior 777-300ER ...

President Trump's controversial decision to accept a luxury jetliner from Qatar and turn it into Air Force One is the latest ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has accepted a luxury Boeing 747 aircraft from Qatar for President Donald Trump to use as Air Force One.

The Boeing 747 jumbo jet gifted to Trump was bought by the Qatar royal family in 2012. The price listed at the time was $367 million. Millions more were likely spent in the next three years on the ...

Yet as Trump plans to accept Boeing 747-8, often dubbed a "palace in the sky," from ... But the news publication Semafor tracked the tail number of the plane when it was parked at Palm Beach ...

Wyoming Rep. Harriet Hageman says Trump’s plan to accept a $400 million jet from Qatar traces back to a 2018 Boeing contract. Before it’s used as ...

The Boeing 747-8KB was delivered to Qatar Amiri Flight in April 2012 ... The current Air Force One 747s have tail numbers 28000 and 29000, so it may not follow traditional registration formats at all.

Rendering of the VC-25B, based on the Boeing 747-8, released in 2023 ... series used for Presidential aircraft – carrying the tail number 30000, following from 29000. As the VC-25Bs have ...

When the first Boeing 747 rolled from the hangar in Everett ... primarily through the sculpting of the nose and tail? Sutter understood this perfectly. The 747’s most distinctive feature ...

The final 747 leaves the Boeing factory. PAUL WEATHERMAN/BOEING For pilots ... As we drove around the maze of roads (that's one thing that hasn't changed), I'd catch a glimpse of a tail fin here and ...

Despite the Boeing 747 being discontinued ... and an Eastern Airlines flight with the same flight and tail number as the president's plane. Designating the plane with the president as Air Force ...