President Donald Trump said he is "not happy with the fact that it's taking so long" for Boeing to build the next Air Force One jetliner, which has been delayed.

The Qatari-donated Boeing 747-8 is set to fly as “VC-25 bridge aircraft” by summer 2026, as delays continue to plague Boeing’s VC-25B presidential aircraft program. The U.S. Air Force expects the ...

In May of 2025, the Qatari royal family donated a Boeing 747 jumbo jet worth some $400 million to the United States government. It was viewed as a temporary bridge plane that could be used until the ...

Air Force One’s aborted flight to Davos last week was one more stage in a prolonged failure to modernize the large jets that serve American presidents. The current airplanes have been in use for 36 ...