It will “probably” cost hundreds of millions of dollars for the Pentagon to transform a luxury Qatari jet into Air Force One, Air Force Secretary Troy Meink told lawmakers on Thursday.

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.

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.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the US Air Force to begin plans to convert a $400M Boeing jet gifted to Trump by the Qatari royal family.

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.

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.

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 ...

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How Air Force One stacks up to the Qatari 747, Trump's coveted 'palace in the sky' President Donald Trump says Air Force One isn't as impressive as some of the planes of the leaders of Qatar ...

President Trump has said the United States needs a more “impressive” Air Force One, on par with the sleek jets he has seen in oil-rich nations in the Middle East. The two 747-200s that serve ...

Lt. Gen. Tony Bauernfeind is cutting civilian faculty, staff at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs and reducing academic majors, minors, and advanced coursework.