“We believe the actual retrofit of that aircraft is probably less than $400 million,” Meink told the House Armed Services Committee, noting the Air Force had already accounted for spare parts.

“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.

The Air Force wants a company to take over its aging chain of hotels at bases across the world, the latest move by the new administration to privatize and commercialize parts of the military ...

An 18-year-old Air Force cadet candidate from Texas who was allegedly killed by an illegal alien on a jet ski was honored with a full military funeral.

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 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 ...

But the Air Force “believes” it will cost “less than $400 million to retrofit that aircraft,” service secretary Troy Meink said during a House Armed Services Committee hearing Thursday.

Texas Rep. Beth Van Duyne is demanding accountability after Air Force cadet Ava Moore was killed in a hit-and-run involving an illegal migrant on a jet ski.

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.

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.

The Air Force One program has faced chronic delays over the last decade, with the delivery of two new 747-8s slated for 2027, three years behind the previous schedule. Trump toured the Qatari ...