It will cost hundreds of millions of dollars to retrofit a Qatari luxury Boeing 747 jetliner to fly as the new Air Force One, Air Force Secretary Troy Meink said.

The interim president and chief executive officer of Boeing commented to reporters at the 2025 Paris Air Show that the recently “gifted” 747-8 from the Qatari royal family to President Trump ...

Boeing 747s have been out of production for some time now due to better jets on the market. However, there are still a few airlines that use them.

The 747-8 is an exquisite machine and is ruinously expensive. No wonder Qatar wants to give it to Donald Trump, who doesn’t seem to understand or care.

The Trump administration may have a new replacement for Air Force One, according to a report from several major news outlets, including CNN. The candidate is a Boeing 747-8 series aircraft gifted ...

Politics Defense Department accepts Boeing 747 from Qatar for Trump’s use The Defense Department will “work to ensure proper security measures” on the aircraft to make it safe for use by the ...

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is using smaller aircraft like the Boeing 737 and 787-8. The 747-8 is still in high demand to carry cargo given its huge internal volume.

The motorcade of U.S. President Donald Trump is parked next to a 12-year old Qatari-owned Boeing 747-8 that Trump was touring in West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., February 15, 2025.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has accepted a Boeing 747 from Qatar that President Donald Trump will use once the Pentagon upgrades it to include “proper security measures and functional ...

Trump, 78, confirmed Sunday that the US would receive the $400 million “flying palace” Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet from Qatar’s royal family “free of charge,” and that he planned to use the ...

President Trump is set to accept a luxury Boeing 747 jet as a gift from Qatar, according to multiple reports. The Qatari royal family is set to hand over a Boeing 747-8 jet to the president’s ...

Personally, I'm more interested in the bugs that the DoD doesn't find.I was always a big DC Spy Museum kid, and a plane the size of a 747-800 must have innumerable places that a bug could be ...