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 ...

The free Air Force One from Qatar, which Trump has described as a gift, has raised eyebrows after a $934 million transfer of ...

Air Force One is the call sign for any plane that's carrying the president. The first aircraft to get the designation was a propeller-powered C-54 Skymaster, which ferried Franklin D. Roosevelt to ...

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 ...

Reed challenged Hegseth over his refusal to disclose the delivery timeline for the Qatari 747 aircraft, pressing him on why such information was being withheld when comparable details about Boeing ...

Back in 2018, during President Donald Trump’s first term, Boeing signed a $3.9 billion deal to build and customize two Boeing 747-8 jets to serve as the new Air Force One fleet by 2024. But now, the ...

Boeing referred questions to the Air Force, which said in a statement that it’s working with the aircraft manufacturer to find ways to accelerate the delivery of at least one of the 747s.

It continued to serve as the primary or backup Air Force One during the administrations of Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. 1972 ...

Pricey ticket. According to Kenneth Walsh, author of “Air Force One: A History of Presidents and Their Planes,” the cost to operate presidential aircraft in the 1950s was roughly $348 per hour.